Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Public Accounts Committee
RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly
10:30 am
Mr. Noel Kelly:
Yes, the statement. We had to ask our lawyers if we could get a copy. Again, we are on the back foot. When RTÉ sent out the top ten earners, again, we get ten minutes.
Again, I had to put in a request for the information. When we got the statement, half an hour before it went out, we said there were inaccuracies in it. Grant Thornton said there was no wrongdoing on behalf of Ryan Tubridy and Noel Kelly and everything was in order. We asked them to put that in, and they did not. Four days later, it was put in, and four days later, Ryan Tubridy was taken off the air. He did not have his show on the Friday and he was not on the show the following week. It looked like he was complicit in this whole RTÉ mess. I am sorry but this has been the worst of times.