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:

I would like to clarify one other thing about that which is important. When I went through the emails, I could see that Jim Jennings, who is director of content, had received it. Jim Jennings had written back to say this was a commercial agreement and it had nothing to do with him because he is editorial. Our initial statement of 27 June stated that in the totality of all of this, we completely recognised how fragmented it was. It comes back to the underwriting on 7 May of the agreement. Once you do that, in effect RTÉ is paying Ryan Tubridy.