RTE have been snubbing oversight for years according to a Longford based Senator.
Senator Micháel Carrigy claims senior staff and board members at the national broadcaster have refused invitations to appear before the Oireacthas Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht.
The Fine Gael Senator says that the committee, that he is a member of, have had concerns over a number of issues at RTE over the last number of years.
However, according to Senator Carrigy multiple requests for the Director General, Board members and senior management to attend the committee have been refused.
Speaking to the Joe Finnegan Show, the Ballinalee postmaster and politician says the trust has been broken:
'Over the last couple of years, they are probably the one organisation that has fluffed coming in to meet us over various issues.
You only have to look, last year myself and Deputy Brendan Griffin from Kerry requested RTE to come in over the Shane Ross interview which was videoed then pulled for no apparent reason.
No Statement was given in relation to the book on Mary Lou McDonald, we wrote to RTE, as it was agreed by the committee for them to come in and they refused to come in.
We also had issues with regard to the appoint of a member to the board.'
