RTE in Crisis
Dee Forbes ‘not fit or able’ to provide evidence on RTÉ payments scandal
Former RTÉ director general has repeatedly cited ill health in declining to provide evidence a number of Oireachtas committees
The chair of the Oireachtas media committee has said she is “very disappointed” that Dee Forbes, the former director general of RTÉ, is “not fit or able” to cooperate with the group’s probe into the secret payments scandal at RTÉ.
In a letter to the committee on Friday, solicitors for Forbes said that the former boss of the national broadcaster - who has not appeared in public since the ongoing financial crisis erupted at RTÉ, ...
