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. Adrian Lynch:

A statement was made, which is broadly true, that any time Noel Kelly met Dee Forbes - it is important to say they were not friendly, they did not meet that often and it was purely business - in 99% of the cases legal and finance, or at least legal, would be present at the meeting. That is from everything I have seen. In this instance, there was a meeting on Teams with Dee Forbes and Noel Kelly. It could have been about anything but I went and had a look at the email correspondence and found an email from later that day, which is precisely the email the Chair has just read out, which refers to talking to Geraldine O'Leary to get these invoices issued. The only material point I was making in relation to that is we now know the Renault deal had expired, Geraldine O'Leary had made it absolutely clear in all her evidence that she was not going back to Renault and there would not be another six events. That is the point I am making.

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