Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ

9:30 am

Mr. Adrian Lynch:

I am just going to make one final point. At 16:18 on 25 April 2022, an email was sent from Mr. Kelly to Ms Forbes, copied to nobody, saying:

Hi Dee

I hope you are well.

It was good to catch up today.

If you could please get Ger [Geraldine O'Leary] to send me on the invoicing details.

We have taken full responsibility for the fact that RTÉ issued a credit note. At that point in time, Ryan Tubridy was being paid and it should have been declared. I even spoke to the ex-CFO who was here giving testimony last week. She said the dogs in the street would have known that that should have been declared. The two payments, which were at great and extravagant expense to the public purse, should have been declared. At that point in time in April, who did Mr. Kelly think he was sending the invoices to, given the fact that Geraldine O'Leary has clearly said that the Renault deal was for one year and she was too embarrassed to go back to the client because we had not delivered the events? There were no other events.

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