The incoming director-general of RTÉ will reconstitute its executive board, according to a senior representative
RTE’S INCOMING DIRECTOR general intends to carry out a complete reconstitution of the broadcaster’s executive board, the Public Accounts Committee has heard.Senior RTÉ executives are appearing before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee following revelations about secret payments made to presenter Ryan Tubridy, which totalled €345,000 over six years.
“It is true that the executive board failed in its collective responsibility to act as a collective and failed to ensure good governance in this matter.” Lynch continued that as a result of “the siloed style of the procedures at the executive, and an over-reliance on the prerogative asserted by the director general”, the board did not receive “a comprehensive evaluation of Ryan Tubridy’s contract in full”.
The issue was partly the result of a deal which saw Tubridy receive additional income from commercial partner Renault, with that income guaranteed and underwritten by RTÉ. Senior RTÉ executives also went before the Oireachtas Media Committee yesterday, where they were grilled about the timeline of the controversy and who had knowledge of the tripartite deal between the broadcaster, Renault and Tubridy’s agent.
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