Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I have the benefit of having sat through two nearly full sessions now. There has been a lot of discussion about the barter account and about invoices and so on. I want to come back to the issue of the tripartite agreement. In what was an excellent piece of public service broadcasting on "Prime Time", Mark Coughlan gave a great summation of what has happened here. He described the tripartite agreement as involving the three parties - Mr. Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ and Renault. The Grant Thornton report consistently says that this was a cost-neutral agreement for the sponsor. I want to know about the knowledge of the tripartite agreement prior to March of this year, and knowledge of it being cost-neutral. I will ask each of the witnesses this question. Was Ms O'Leary aware of a tripartite agreement and if so, was she aware of it being cost-neutral?