Elaine Loughlin: Looking for the truth in RTÉ payments scandal is like 'nailing jelly to the wall'

RTÉ director of commercial Geraldine O'Leary  and chief financial officer Richard Collins arrive at Thursday's PAC meeting. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

"Looking for the truth is like nailing jelly to the wall," as Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member Alan Dillon put it as politicians tried their level best to get to the bottom of the RTÉ saga.

And he wasn't alone in his frustration as, after almost nine hours of intense grilling over two days, we still do not know how and why an unusual workaround to pay the country's top-paid presenter even more money came about.