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)
Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
You would be looking for somebody who could generate more money than I might. Mr. Kelly also stitches in the word "guarantee". Mr. Kelly talks about underwriting and guaranteeing and when he goes into the Grant Thornton report, at 2.3(g), it also talks about Mr. Kelly's understanding of what would happen in the event of the sponsor going away or moving somewhere. It states: "The Talent’s Agent understood from this, that in a situation where the Commercial Brand relationship with RTÉ no longer existed or the Commercial Brand did not pay the €75,000 to the Talent that RTÉ would be obliged to step in and pay the Talent this sum." I have to read that as it is. It is hard to see why that would be the case if RTÉ was the one that came up with this idea. Does Mr. Kelly know what I am saying? It is hard to figure that.
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