Exit packages and moral obligations

Sir, – Minister for Media Catherine Martin has said there is a “moral obligation” on RTÉ's former chief financial officer to repay an exit package (News, February 15th). Would that entail a moral obligation for a re-entry package? – Yours, etc,

AIDAN RODDY,

Dublin 18.

Sir, – If large exit packages are compliant with “the rules” and don’t need to be reassessed, then those rules definitely do. That shouldn’t just apply to RTÉ. – Yours, etc,

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