Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Public Accounts Committee
RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly
10:30 am
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Kelly is a businessman and a negotiator, and he looks after his clients. That is his job. There is no issue with that whatsoever. However, Mr. Kelly was instructed not to put names on the invoices - and we are not talking about €2.99 or €3.50, we are talking about invoices for €75,000 - and he knew that he had asked RTÉ to underwrite the agreement. They confirmed that they were underwriting the agreement, they were putting it through the barter account, Mr. Kelly was told not to put a name on it, he knew exactly what it was for, and he did not flag that up. He went along with it, and yet he says there was nothing secret about the deal.
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