RTÉ Payments Scandal

RTÉ paid €4 million in allowances to staff last year

Documents also reveal that the broadcaster did not use Soho House, an exclusive club in London, for meetings and it was instead used for accommodation by RTÉ staff

Kevin Bakhurst will attend the Oireachtas media committee on Wednesday along with other senior executives from the broadcaster. Picture: Fergal Phillips

RTÉ paid more than €4 million worth of allowances to staff last year, new documents released to the Oireachtas media committee have shown.

RTÉ senior staff and members of the broadcaster’s board, including Kevin Bakhurst, the director-general, are due to appear in front of the Oireachtas media committee on Wednesday. In advance of the meeting, almost 180 documents have been shared with members of the committee.

RTÉ has now told the committee does not intend ...