Top executives and board members from national broadcaster to go before Oireachtas committee this afternoon
Sinn Féin’s Chief Whip Padraig Mac Lochlainn has said that he thought it was a fair and reasonable request that the fee that will be paid to the new Late Late Show presenter Patrick Kielty is made public. “I think it would be absolutely untenable to not bring that information into the public domain,"he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show.
“We need the likes of the chief financial officer in the committee today to be able to answer some of the questions. We need the likes of the Head of Commercial who has been there since 2018, so you’d imagine would have good oversight and good knowledge of what’s transpired. So that’s the first issue for me.
”Clearly other people were aware of elements of what was going on. We need to dig deeper into that. We need to find out exactly who knew what, because to be honest, it’s not credible really, that only one person knew. When you think about the amounts that we’re talking about, €345,000 of TV license holders money.
Speaking to Ivan Yates on Newstalk’s Pat Kenny show, Ms O’Kelly said that it details of the commercial sponsorship deal for Ryan Tubridy reinforced the notionthat there’s one rule for some very highly paid people in the organisation and another rule for all the rest of us.” Ms O’Kelly also addressed a protest outside RTÉ's offices on Tuesday. Bryan O’Brien was there to document it
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