{"id":457525,"date":"2026-05-20T00:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457525\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:39:13","slug":"rte-bosses-due-at-media-cttee-amid-payments-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457525\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 bosses due at media cttee amid payments controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior RT\u00c9 management are to appear before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Committee&#8217;s chairperson Alan Kelly has described the meeting as a timely engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, RT\u00c9 Director-General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0519\/1574038-politics-rte-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Bakhurst said he believes the broadcaster has &#8220;paid the price for transparency&#8221;<\/a> over the payments controversy involving presenter and producer Derek Mooney.<\/p>\n<p>The official agenda for the meeting suggests that pensions, funding and reform are down for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is little doubt that the Derek Mooney controversy will be to the fore.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of a two-hour meeting with Minister for Communications Patrick O&#8217;Donovan yesterday, RT\u00c9 bosses were asked if there were any more landmines about to detonate?<\/p>\n<p>He was told there was not, but Mr Bakhurst pledged that if anything else is discovered it will not be hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O&#8217;Donovan now wants RT\u00c9 to consider publishing a top 100 salary list.<\/p>\n<p>The director-general said the controversy of recent days was disappointing adding that it did not provide an incentive to be more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>That particular opinion is likely to be the source of many questions from TDs and Senators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior RT\u00c9 management are to appear before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-457525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}