It all started at one of the numerous Oireachtas hearings into senior pay at RTÉ last summer when former chief financial officer Breda O’Keeffe told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on July 5, 2023: “The Senator asked me why I left RTÉ. I had been there for 18 years. I also left under a voluntary restructuring programme at the time. I just want to make that clear. At the time, there was an offer in place, a restructuring programme, with terms and conditions for staff. I applied under that scheme.” Successive redundancy packages opened in 2017 and 2021 aimed at…

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