RTÉ chair ‘must set record straight’

RTE chair Tom Savage needs to “set the record straight” about his PR company’s clients, a Labour senator has said, as the fallout from the Mission to Prey programme continues.

John Whelan said he would this week request the Oireachtas Communications Committee, of which he is a member, to recall Mr Savage. The committee is examining RTÉ structures in the wake of the programme which defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds.

Mr Savage told the committee last month that in the three-and-a-half years he had been RTÉ chair, “not a single issue has cropped up at board level where I have had to absent myself from the discussion because I had a conflict of interest”.