She has outlined her position
Dee Forbes, the suspended director-general of RTE, has resigned, saying she is “ultimately responsible” following the scandal over undisclosed payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy.
Ms Forbes said she had consistently co-operated with the processes directed towards answering questions surrounding payments to Tubridy. "In early 2020 RTÉ began discussions around the renewal of Ryan Tubridy’s contract. That contract contained contractual payments that had been negotiated and put in place prior to my arrival at RTÉ.
"As a result of the negotiated cost saving agreement, RTÉ would no longer be liable for a contractual payment that was due in 2020. This new commercial agreement required that RTÉ guarantee and underwrite the €75K payments. "Payment was sought for the 2021 and 2022 contractual commitments that now fell to RTÉ under the guarantee even though RTÉ had never expected to become liable for them and had not budgeted for them. Because of the commercial nature of the arrangement, it was decided to pay the invoices from the commercial barter account which was in credit. We were motivated purely by the need to find a solution to honour the contractual obligation.
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