RTE in Crisis
Updates: RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst appears before Public Accounts Committee
Follow updates as executives from the national broadcaster answer TDs questions into the ongoing payments scandal
• Former CFO Breda O’Keefe texts into committee to interject on evidence provided
• Bakhurst “does not want to leave [decision on Tubridy] too long”
• Invoices of other RTÉ presenters represented by Noel Kelly to be investigated
• RTÉ CFO: “evidence suggests” Tubridy and Kelly knew barter account payments were from RTÉ
• Bakhurst expresses confidence in deputy Lynch, who is accused of “misleading” the committee
• RTÉ witnesses’ cards marked over "crucial“ missing ...