“If anyone has lost out; my own opinion is, maybe the taxpayer was defrauded.”
Richard Collins testified at the Public Accounts Committee’s hearing into the broadcaster’s hidden payments to Ryan Tubridy and was questioned by Fine Gael’s Alan Dillon.
“[What is] raising invoices for something knowing that it’s not what it is?” Deputy Dillon asked Mr Collins.“Would you not determine that to be fraud, wrongfully known?” Deputy Dillon asked.described the controversy as “truly shocking”“As a trained accountant and a former financial controller, I am appalled as to how payments were recorded and presented in the RTÉ accounts,” Ms Ní Raghallaigh said in her opening statement.
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