Ms Geraldine O'Leary:

To repeat, once the deal had been done, I was asked to represent this to Renault, which I did. Ideally, I am sure the hope was that Renault would have extra money to pay Ryan Tubridy separately but it had not. From my perspective, this is a loyal and supportive client. Once the cost-neutrality principle was accepted by the director general, the client was getting three high-profile events for its business.