Forbes suspended from role following fallout from revelations of undisclosed payments to Ryan Tubridy
Make no mistake, much of the focus in the coming hours - and days - will be whether or not Dee Forbes will appear before the Oireachtas hearings into the secret payments scandal that has rocked the national broadcaster. This has just landed fromThe chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has said that if Dee Forbes is medically able to attend the PAC meeting this week, then she should do so.
He added that he had been very encouraged since last Thursday by the manner in which the story had been reported by RTÉ “as diligently and impartially as anybody else.” That had been encouraging to see and he was happy that it had not been hampered. However, he was very concerned at the lack of corporate governance within the station and called for any external review to be carried out quickly.
“Even when I left two years ago, the head of news, John Williams, was in the process of finding up to €2 million in cutbacks in the organisation, and that meant things like vacancies in the newsroom being left vacant. My job was left vacant for over a year after I left,” he told the Today with Claire Byrne show. Mr Mullolly added that every time there were meetings with members of the executive about cuts they were told that the process of reducing salaries was under way.
“Good morning and welcome to the programme. Before we start today I want to talk to you about the news that emerged here last week, over the last couple of days and indeed this morning too. She said that she has listened to Liveline and heard callers talking to Joe Duffy and “heard them talking about being disappointed, about trust being broken and the importance of transparency and for me and for all the great people that I work with here every day on this show, hearing that is nothing short of heartbreaking because I can tell you that as programme makers our aim is always to be consistent, to be fair, to be professional and to respect the hard earned trust that you the audience...
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