
The State broadcaster will be questioned on a number of controversies.
The Oireachtas Media Committee will grill RTE this afternoon, after the broadcaster spent €3.6m on a failed IT system.
The broadcaster will appear before politicians for the first time since the election, with governance and finance issues dominating the agenda.
RTE Director General, Kevin Bakhurst will tell the committee the IT system scandal was "extremely regrettable" but is an outlier.
While representatives from the RTE will face questions over a new promo ad for the news and current affairs department, being shot by an external production involving extras acting as journalists.
Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Ferbane's Seamus Dooley says it's a story that's hard to explain: