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Fine Gael slams ‘drip drip’ of information over RTÉ exit packages

Leo Varadkar has sharply criticised a ‘culture of arrogance’ among senior staff in believing ‘licence fee income was RTÉ’s money’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “It’s clear that in RTÉ there was a culture of poor corporate governance when it came to making decisions, a culture of arrogance among senior staff and a wide culture of entitlement in believing that the licence fee income was RTÉ’s money, not something that has to be earned or competed for.”Picture: Andres Poveda

Fine Gael has hit out at RTÉ executives over the “drip-feed of revelations” concerning the financial and governance scandal at the national broadcaster, with Leo Varadkar calling for full clarity around exit payments to senior staff who have left the organisation.

In comments to the Sunday Independent, the Taoiseach sharply criticised “a culture of arrogance among senior staff” in believing that “licence fee income was RTÉ’s money, not something that has to be earned or ...