Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Shortt:

If I could just add my insight into this. The Deputy can correct me if I am wrong, but I think what Mr. Tubridy was taking issue with was his perception that the €120,000 bullet payment or termination bonus for his previous contract was not paid. We acknowledged that it was not paid. I accept that these things are kind of difficult to understand, but that is a separate although maybe related issue to the understatement of his earnings over the years from 2017 to 2019. We were very clear, and the chair's statement last week made very clear, that the €120,000 was not paid, and that the €120,000, as related to the earnings, was a mistake on RTÉ's behalf, which we then corrected.

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