Ex-RTE pundit Eamon Dunphy wants Ryan Tubridy’s account of the RTE payment scandal to be heard in public and suggested he is answerable to the people.
Eamon responded on his podcast The Stand about a possible private meeting between Tubridy, his agent Noel Kelly and powerful Oireachtas committees before they are publicly grilled on the matter.
Dunphy, who is an Irish Star columnist, said: “We haven’t heard from Tubridy and Kelly. They have sent a solicitor’s letter to the two committees.
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“These are the Public Accounts committee and the Media Committee to say that they have important information to give.
“They offered to come before the committee but they asked for a private meeting beforehand.
“Isn’t this supposed to be in public? Aren’t these committees meant to enlighten us, the people, who fund RTE, and to enlighten the committee?
“This is a public scandal.”
He also criticised the answers provided by many of the RTE executives who have so far appeared before the Oireachtas committees.
He said: “Many have stonewalled or declared that they didn’t know.
“One thing that [former RTE chief financial officer Breda O’Keeffe] said, which I think is significant, was the deal with Renault and said she did know about it.
“She said she opposed it and that others opposed it as well. It is clear that the implication here is that Dee Forbes, the [former RTE] director general, forced it through.”
He added that many RTE execs “have not been prepared or rigorous in their evidence”.
