INFLATION might be creeping upwards but RTÉ’s top stars are still managing to stay on top of things — with the likes of Pat Kenny, for instance, enjoying a 7.5% pay rise and earning €849,139 for his radio and TV work in 2006.

MONEY is available to the Government to deliver much-needed infrastructure projects if it so wished, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.

Eircom has come in for criticism at an Oireachtas Committee hearing today.