Public Accounts Committee

Project delivery team to appear before Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee in attempt to explain cost overruns and delays

Dáil due to get new ‘guidance’ this week on timeframe for completing building

Virgin Media Television eyeing fresh viewing record for Ireland’s quarter-final Rugby World Cup defeat to New Zealand

Broadcaster's dispirited employees say they are bearing the brunt of both management missteps and political hostility

National broadcaster will get a bailout, one way or another, but remaining rows are stopping it from finding stability

Director general Kevin Bakhurst tells spending watchdog that actions taken to manage finances of crisis-hit broadcaster have saved ‘several million euro’

Complete sale of Montrose campus ‘unlikely’, RTÉ's director general tells Public Accounts Committee

TD Niamh Smyth, who chairs media committee, believes another committee meeting before Dáil resumes regular sittings may be in order

Grant Thornton report shifts blame further towards RTÉ’s shortcomings but new director general will hold all the cards in future contract negotiations

TD Paul McAuliffe says Public Accounts Committee eager to ‘wrap this up’ and move on from payment issues

A former political director suggests four simple ways committees could do their jobs more effectively

Amount needed by broadcaster likely to increase from €16m uplift planned by Catherine Martin

Committee looks for fresh documentation, including ‘side letter’ between Kelly and Forbes

The new director general is a talented media executive, well liked by staff. But is he too much of an insider?

Leinster House channel had more than nine million minutes of online viewing on Tuesday, compared to the usual 29,000 minutes for a committee hearing

The ill-fated theatrical production staged in the National Convention Centre - not a typical theatre venue - lost more than €2 million as the producers fell well short of their targets

Committee hearings into RTÉ payments controversy provided stark contrast between top performers and those who scaled soaring heights of incoherence

RTÉ, led by new director general Kevin Bakhurst, and its top star saw battle lines drawn this week as their differences over Ryan Tubridy's hidden payments were exposed in three more stormy Oireachtas committee hearings

RTÉ executives push back on assertions made by Tubridy and Kelly; DG says he was surprised to hear former chief financial officer had availed of exit package

After six meetings, more than 25 hours of committee hearings and plenty of media coverage, the short answer is yes

The spotlight remains on the RTÉ presenter

Costs and delays

RTÉ crisis: Tubridy not being paid an RTÉ salary as of this week, DG Kevin Bakhurst tells PAC

From payments to presenter to cars on loan, broadcaster’s new boss will be asked to shed light on many remaining issues

New director general Bakhurst and chair Ní Raghallaigh to push back against presenter’s evidence, claiming ‘pressing need’ to correct record

Catch-up: Three weeks of the RTE payment scandal, dozens of documents and hours of committee meetings

The broadcaster had three tasks in the most important live show of his career

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

Committee meetings seek to find answers

Television review: Tubridy has two settings – super-jaunty and hyper-sincere. Nobody wanted jauntiness so the hyper-sincerity bubbled up

Presenter and his agent disputed broadcaster’s account of payments during six hours of questioning at Oireachtas hearings

RTÉ executives previously said they believed staging the three events last year had cost €30,000

RTÉ star’s appearance on Oireachtas TV creates bemusement among tourists, while turnout is lower than expected in one pub that promoted the event

Broadcaster and agent Noel Kelly tell Public Accounts Committee they did not come up with €75,000 annual Renault agreement

The gap between RTÉ and Ryan Tubridy is now a chasm, writes Jack Horgan-Jones

RTÉ pay crisis: Broadcaster’s opening statement to the Public Accounts Committee released

Presenter and his agent Noel Kelly are expected to face in-depth questions over payments scandal

Director general Kevin Bakhurst says he hopes to see ‘maximum transparency and honesty’ from the presenter

Presenter and agent to appear at two back-to-back Oireachtas committee hearings on Tuesday

Committee members told by Oireachtas legal advisers the two witnesses are under no obligation to appear