RTÉ pay controversy: Incoming DG Kevin Bakhurst plans substantial change at top of broadcaster
Interesting historical analogy here from our radio critic Mick Heaney. He compares the Ryan Tubridy revelations to the shooting of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914, the event that started the First World War.
Senator Dooley told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that his questions at the PAC meeting had queried who in RTÉ was getting paid a car allowance out of licence fees? Were there people getting a car allowance who did not have a car or even a driver’s licence?But for some reason, RTÉ management decided to create this notion about an individual who had a car loan, etc., etc., creating a level of hype and it required Marty Morrissey then to effectively clarify the situation.
“Marty Morrissey has gotten nothing from RTÉ, from the license holder other than his salary. So therefore, quite frankly, he has been pulled into this controversy, I think unfairly and unnecessarily.” It had been a car loan, no licence fee funds were involved, no RTÉ money was involved “He has been paid for the work that he has done. And yes, he had an arrangement, as he said in relation to the loan of a car. He has explained that and they are two entirely different situations.
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