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
Ms Geraldine O'Leary:
I am the person who is responsible for that relationship. The deal was constructed without any consultation with me or the client. I was advised that this element had been included in the deal and I went to speak to Renault. It has been said a couple of times that Renault did not renew it but I only ever spoke to Renault about year 1, which was 2020. I never went back to it in 2021 or 2022. The conversation with Renault was on events in 2020, which, because of Covid, did not happen until 2022. Renault was not consulted when the deal was being put together for Ryan Tubridy; I went to Renault after the deal had been done.
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