Kieran
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A misstatement of fees, I think, is how they describe what you keep saying is false accounting.
Ciarán Lynch was the Labour TD, I think.
Adrian Lynch is the person you were talking about.
Yeah, but again, a misstatement of fees.
All right, we'll let your peacock go back to work.
Yeah, and look, we shouldn't be excited at the fact that great public service broadcasting happens on lots of different platforms in this country.
And it's not just the purview of RTE.
I guess the difference with RTE and the reason we're talking about it, it's not just because we're RTE, but because it's the one that the public have a stake in.
Through the licence fee and through taxpayer backing as well, exchequer funding, to a greater degree than other public service broadcasters.
So that's why maybe it's a little different from all of the above.
Let me bring in Áine, who's on the line as well.
Áine, have you faith that RTE now is a transparent organisation?
's salaries and allowances and travel allowances and secretarial allowances and all that are a matter of public record.
So, I mean, maybe what politicians, particularly government politicians, might say to that is there's a much more robust public procurement process in Ireland.
What you're describing certainly might have been the case in the past.
When it comes to RT, then what additional information do you think should be on paper?