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RTÉ’s Director General must explain why rules were routinely ignored and broken at the broadcaster with regard to exit packages, rather than wrongly claiming he is being asked to break the law by divulging this information, a Fine Gael TD has said.
Media committee chair Niamh Smyth has said RTÉ’s director general Kevin Bakhurst and board chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh must “come clean” with Minister Catherine Martin about exit packages for executives at the broadcaster.
A political row is brewing over Employment Minister Simon Coveney’s failure to disclose his brother’s exit package from RTÉ, or to urge him to do so and to attend committee hearings.
A political row is brewing over Employment Minister Simon Coveney’s failure to disclose his brother’s exit package from RTÉ, or to urge him to do so and to attend committee hearings.
Mr Bakhurst and board chairwoman Siín Ní Raghallaigh were called to a meeting with Minister for Media Catherine Martin on Monday