Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 June 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion
9:30 am
Ms Geraldine O'Leary:
I did not deliberately keep anything under wraps. As I have said from the beginning, this was unusual because I had never been involved in any element of a contract with the presenter. We have gone through year one already. In year two, in 2021, the director general asked me if there were any commercial partnership possibilities and I said "No". I did not go back to Renault because we already owed it for the previous year-----