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

Kevin Bakhurst, RTÉ’s director general and Adrian Lynch, deputy director general

• 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 ...