A local Senator and member of the Oireachtas Media Committee says he has no faith in members of the RTE executive following further controversy over night.
Minister Catherine Martin has brought forward a meeting with the incoming Director General to tomorrow, and a forensic accountant investigation due to start in August will begin next week.
The RTÉ board will also commission a Grant Thornton investigation into Toy Show the Musical, which lost 2.2 million euro.
Senator Micháel Carrigy believes the revelation of the existence of further barter accounts shows the executive had mislead the committee when they appeared before them last week.
Speaking to the Joe Finnegan Show, the Longford based Senator says that those at the highest levels were failing to question contracts, accounts and spending at the national broadcaster:
'If you sat before that group of people last Wednesday, questioned from all members with very vague answers given and putting all the blame on one individual.
Nobody within the executive level on high wages, including the chief financial officer, questioned the contracts, the spend and said they were not aware of other accounts.
They misled both the public accounts committee and the media committee. My experience over the last two and a half years being a member of that committee has been very negative towards RTE.'
