Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have just told Mr. Kelly that Italy had already gone into lockdown in February. These emails were going back and forth in February, and Mr. Kelly had requested that RTÉ would underwrite the agreement. He told us that this morning. He had requested that RTÉ would lock the agreement and that it would be the fall guy if any sponsor pulled out or in the event of a lack of any other sponsor. He knew Covid was there. He knew the lockdown had already started, and the likelihood was that it was going to come across, and that was his way of locking in RTÉ. As I have said from the beginning, the one who is ultimately responsible for all of this is the executive board of RTÉ. It is the one that underwrote a commercial deal, which it had no business doing. It is the one that raised false invoices. The response Mr. Kelly gave to that is not credible either. It also put those payments through the barter account. Is it not true that the only person who benefited from this deal was Mr. Kelly's client?