Finance Minister Michael McGrath has warned that RTE can't "hold anything back, warts and all" and needs to be put all of the "relevant information" on the table about the deal it made with Ryan Tubridy."Those are questions which have yet to be answered and I do think need to be urgently answered by RTE. We haven't seen RTE yet meet the standard of full openness and transparency."It is hard to believe that they don't have the information.
Minister McGrath stressed that Ireland has "established processes in place" for considering whether there has been a breach of accountancy rules or company law matters at RTE. "But in the first instance I think we still have a journey to go to get all of the answers that are needed. I think the only way through this for RTE is to put all of the information on the table and just reveal everything."
"It would appear that nobody shouted ‘stop’ for a number of years. I understand that the Media committee, and indeed the Public Accounts Committee, have further questions that they will want to have answered so I think we need to allow that process to take its course.