The Aontú representative for Mayo has called on the Government to end the forced TV license fee.

Paul Lawless says this fee is being used to prop up a corrupt and untrustworthy station.

This comes in the wake of the breaking news that one of RTÉ’s top earners, Ryan Tubridy, far beyond what the public broadcaster was declaring.

In further developments on this story, Communications Minister Catherine Martin will hold face-to face to talks with the Chair of the RTE Board, Siun Ni Raghaillaigh this afternoon.

RTÉ has been formally called before the Oireneral Dee Forbes after it emerged Tubridy was paid hundreds of thousands of euro more than RTÉ publicly stated.

Speaking to Midwest Radio’s Rian Bailey, Paul Lawless says that these revelations represent fraudulent accounting practices: