RTÉ Payments Scandal

Dáil committee to discuss giving Pac power to compel RTÉ witnesses

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is seeking to compel several former employees of the broadcaster to appear

PAC is seeking to compel Dee Forbes to appear before it. Picture: Fergal Phillips.

The Dáil committee on parliamentary privileges and oversight is meeting later today to discuss giving PAC powers to compel several former RTÉ employees to appear before it.

PAC is seeking to compel Dee Forbes, the former RTÉ director general, as well as former executives Breda O’Keeffe and Geraldine O’Leary to appear before it in relation to the payments scandal.

O’Leary has previously appeared before PAC while O’Keeffe has appeared before the Media Committee. Forbes has ...