Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Noel Kelly:

We are dealing with a €350 million operation at RTÉ, which is huge. At any time, I would assume it knew what it was doing. We have a contract. The email from the then CFO confirms that this was RTÉ's position and, again, there was no secret. Dee Forbes then verbally said it would honour the contract. We never thought RTÉ would ever pay this. All we wanted was that if the sponsor changed, we would be able to have an interaction with the sponsor because the relationship was between the sponsor and RTÉ. If the sponsor changed, therefore, we needed to be able to renegotiate and rework what it wanted to do. That was all.

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