The Government does not "believe that it is credible" that only former RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes knew about the pay arrangements put in place for Ryan Tubridy, the Taoiseach has said.
Leo Varadkar also said that it is "not satisfactory" that RTÉ has stated that a Grant Thornton review examining why additional payments were made to Mr Tubridy between 2017 and 2019 will take four weeks.
He made the comments as a lengthy statement suggested that "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".
