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Yet more questions about the broadcaster's finances arose at the committee

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Chief Financial Officer Richard Collins leaving the Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media at Leinster House, Dublin, on the controversy around Ryan Tubridy's misreported salary payments. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Chief Financial Officer Richard Collins leaving the Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media at Leinster House, Dublin, on the controversy around Ryan Tubridy's misreported salary payments. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Bernice Harrison
Fri Jun 30 2023 - 05:00

For over a week now RTÉ has struggled to gain control of the controversy over secret payments to presenter Ryan Tubridy.

Appearances by RTÉ top brass at two Oireachtas committees this week were supposed to answer the many questions that have arisen from what has become a major scandal.

On this episode of In the News, political reporter Jennifer Bray explains what we know now and the questions that remain to be answered.

Correction: in this episode, remarks made in the Public Accounts Committee by Colm Burke TD were incorrectly attributed to Colm Brophy TD.

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Presented by Bernice Harrison.

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison is an Irish Times journalist and cohost of In the News podcast

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