RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

So he wants Tubridy and Renault to come in front of the committee...no mention of NK?

Who gives a toss Tubridy has said we has said nothing much more he can say

Where is John Rodgers??

Where is John Rodgers??

Or Ryan Tubridy?

Ryan Tubridy is the messiah. Ah here no he isn’t.

So is Tubridy under contract or not?! Is he getting money or not?!

More Patrick Kielty digging now

That's exactly what'll happen...

A report will be prepared (and filed), lessons will be learned, confidence must be restored and so on and so forth.

In reality though, back to business as usual I expect - all of this has happened before, and will happen again!

I wonder what Ryan's at now......watching the PAC or on the boards?

So Tubriby as of now had a contract that was sent to the agent. Doesn’t sound like he’s signed it.

False invoicing.

They colluded with elements in RTE to conceal payments from its board.

NK should be entirely dispensed with and have no involvement with RTE whatsoever.

RTE needs root and branch reform if its governance of course also.

I got the names of RTE people here. And how I thought they fared with the Oireachtas Media Committee.

Siún Ní Raghallaigh - RTE Chair - seemed contrite for most of it - but seemed at worst very naive

Anne O'Leary, Chair of Audit & Risk Committee RTÉ - seemed really pissed off and can't wait to bring an audit to see what the craic is, seemed disgusted with the whole lot of them

Robert Shortt, Member of Audit & Risk Committee and Board staff representative - I can't remember him saying anything of note

Adrian Lynch, Interim Deputy Director General - admitted mistakes, but seems to be comfortable in that he is at a distance to any RTE governance issues

Richard Collins, Chief Financial Officer - a complete and utter bollix - used the DG signed off on it as his shield - said he was comfortable with it as long as the DG (Forbes) signed

Geraldine O'Leary, Director of Commercial - ducked and dived the difficult questions - basically nothing to do with her line

Rory Coveney, Director of Strategy - like drawing blood out a a turnip - even claimed the 'commercial sensitivities' line so as not to give figures

Terminated

He still has an active contract for the radio portion so is still being paid...took them long enough to admit it!

Hasn't a jot to do with either.

NK demands a salary for RT

DF guarntees that through the commercial agreement.

How RTE pay RT has nothing to do with RT same as any other employee in any company.

It's the companies job to get the contracted money in the bank.