RTE has claimed that ex-Director General Dee Forbes had "all the necessary information" over the RTE payments scandal and that "no illegality” was involved in the undeclared payments to presenter Ryan Tubridy.
In a nine-page statement released this evening by the Interim Deputy Director-General, Adrian Lynch, the national broadcaster tried to explain what lead to its underreporting of payments worth €345,000 to Late Late Show presenter Tubridy.
The statement concluded: “No member of the RTÉ Executive Board, other than the Director General, had all the necessary information in order to understand that the publicly declared figures for Ryan Tubridy could have been wrong.”
