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:

-----a separate commercial agreement with Renault, always to be paid by Renault, and we never, ever understood that anyone else would be paying it. In those six years, as I have said, from 2017 to 2022, Ryan Tubridy’s shows brought in €100 million - that is €100 million. You could say “I could bring in €100 million” and maybe you could, but at the end of the day, this was a commercial agreement. Renault wanted Ryan Tubridy to do the events. From RTÉ's perspective, it was great to embellish and extend the sponsorship. We were working at all times under instruction from RTÉ.

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