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:

Noel Kelly is an extremely good negotiator and is meticulous about detail. He represent his clients extremely well and he is also very loyal to them. Over the seven years I have worked in RTÉ, my experience with Ryan Tubridy is that he is an utterly decent person. I want to put that on the record. Regarding the negotiation and the ability to leverage that, undoubtedly Ryan Tubridy and the "Late Late Show" are commercially important to RTÉ. I am not sure where the figure of €100 million comes from. I would be aware of our commercial revenues and that seems high. However, I am not sure and there may be a valid methodology to that.