Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion
Mr. Adrian Lynch:
I cannot speak for the director of content, but what I would say is that while the correspondence, which I would have seen, shows it going on and on over the last seven days to the last six months, there was no way RTÉ would underwrite a deal like that. Immediately when you underwrite that deal, there is risk. It is a commercial agreement that brings risk with it, because basically if you cannot fulfil an arrangement with the sponsor, then RTÉ is paying Ryan Tubridy directly.
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