An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-27
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The revelations about secret payments to Ryan Tubridy in RTÉ have been a kick in the teeth to public confidence in the State broadcaster and a kick in the teeth to the ordinary journalists and workers in RTÉ who have done nothing wrong and who, while these payments were being made, had to endure pay cuts, pay freezes, bogus self-employment, zero-hour contracts and many other sacrifices. They and the public deserve absolute, full transparency and all the facts to be put on the table with no drip-drip. The Minister needs to instruct RTÉ to publish all the relevant information immediately, with no dragging it out. I ask that if the Minister has briefed the Government on the terms of reference of the review, that she comes in here and briefs us and has a proper discussion this week on how we are going to get the truth out in the interest of the public and the workers in RTÉ.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-27