PAC to seek pay clarity over RTÉ's use of bogus self-employed contracts

'The way this payment was made had to be dragged out of them, TDs told, after broadcaster said previously that the 'details are not made publicly available'

Sinn Féin TD and PAC chairman Brian Stanley: Payment would likely be disclosed in the broadcaster’s annual report next year. File picture: Gareth Chaney

The public accounts committee is to write to the Revenue Commissioners to seek clarity as to whether RTÉ can reveal the size of a payment it made over its use of bogus self-employed contracts.

Two weeks ago the State broadcaster told the committee that it was not in a position to reveal the nature of the payment due to the terms of its voluntary qualifying disclosure to Revenue, meaning that “the details are not made publicly available”.