Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Best bit of telly aired by RTE in a long time.
It was glossed over as well - he was asked about end of contract payments and were there more of these payments currently and he said no, just for Ryan Tubridy but there had been in the past.....
has the pac committee ever actually had any results in terms of changing behaviour or policy?
it seems to me that it's just for politicians showboating.
mind a bunch of politicians accusing anyone of wasting public money is in pot call kettle black territory anyway.
How, if the Interim DG says there was no way that RTE would underwrite a guarantee; but they did. What am I missing??
Worse still the committee repeatedly said they were pushed for time. What does Mattie do? Goes on a rambling rant, talks over the chair who calmly has to say ‘Can I speak?’
I hate the way that lady says “75 grand”
Surely the full transaction history of the Barter Account should be presented?
Id prefer if she said seventy five thousand tub bucks
I think he means it would never be actual RTE policy to do it, but somebody made the decision to do it regardless.
Ah, at last I understand - Barter Account = Slush Fund
"they were raised in my office, but i didn't see them...." WTF
Following question should have been "OK - Who raised them, and under whose instruction, and who gave that person the wording for the invoices?" and then "why, if you said you were asked to raise the invoices by the DG at the time, did you not know what was on the invoices?"
There's an absence of pertinent and searching questions today - hope it's better tomorrow!
How is Siún Ní Raghallaigh (sp?) in charge of anything, never mind this Exec Board??
She seems incapable of stringing a sentence together.
😂😂😂
You’d think she would been coached not to use language like that lol.
It was previously referred to as the Kangaroo court.
lol - slightly more than ONE persons average salary in RTE in 2021.
40 coats and his 50 pockets
sounds like a parable
it's just for politicians showboating
That bit is where it's at
A 5 minute sos, where are we school.
bosco got a mention!
Plus an extra pocket hidden in the lining - just in case anyone wants to barter
That Bosco analogy was half baked and cringeworthy.
When I first watched one in the late 2000s at the time of some of the charity /rehab Center payment/money wasting scandals, I called it X-factor for politicians.
So far the gist is . Most Main RTE reps new to positions blaming the former DG and former CFO.
However, There was a grey haired RTE woman (Suin Ni R) who seems very contrite/ashamed and said RTE culture at management level needs to change.
The new CFO seems like a bit of a bollox to be honest confident smug head on him. Whose main line is ‘once the DG signed off on it, I was comfortable/confident’
That's all it is, gives them a chance to show voters that they are on the ball.
Likewise the CCO, who claims to have no idea about invoices drawn by her own office.
"The new CFO seems like a bit of a bollox to be honest confident smug head on him. Whose main line is ‘once the DG signed off on it, I was comfortable/confident’ "
I can't believe he got away without being further questioned on that.
Someone should put it to him what's he being paid as a CFO for if he just signs off whatever the DG says?
This is not the PAC though, that's tomorrow.
Very little being new information being disclosed here. Waste of time. You need experienced financial investigators asking the questions here not gombeens who can't string a sentence together and who can't counter the answers. PAC is a complete waste of time.
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