Bakhurst offers to send ‘extensive and detailed summary’ of note on meeting to committee
RTÉ has proposed a compromise in its dispute with the Dáil’s public spending watchdog over a document relating to payments to former Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy.
PAC chairman Brian Stanley raised the issue of the note with RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst at a meeting of the committee last month saying: “The committee feel there’s obviously an importance to this, particularly in the absence of Ms Dee Forbes being able to attend here because she was one of the people at that meeting.”
“I’m not trying to hide behind legal advice – but you will appreciate as a responsible organisation if we had taken legal advice about what we can and can’t and should disclose, it would be remiss of us to act against that legal advice,” he said. “Such confidentiality is a central element of the solicitor/client relationship and one that RTÉ is entitled to rely upon,” it says. “RTÉ wishes to respectfully reach a mutually acceptable compromise that we hope will be of assistance and will adequately address the aforementioned concerns of the PAC.
The condition of this is that the summary of the note would only be discussed in a private session of the PAC and its contents would not be discussed in public or published.
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