Chair of the Oireachtas Communications Committee Niamh Smyth has said events surrounding a retirement gathering at RTÉ are of huge concern and clarity and a forthright statement from the organisation is needed.
She told RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne she did not accept that it was an "impromptu" event and she said that the Communications Committee has a responsibility to ask questions about how this event happened in the first place.
We are in Level 5 lockdown, she said, "and this is an indoor social gathering". On Friday a number of images appeared in the media, which showed some RTÉ personnel posing for photographs with a long-serving colleague on her last day at work in RTÉ.