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:
Very briefly. Mr. Kelly said he never met Dee Forbes alone at any point without legal and finance in attendance. I went back and looked to see whether any meetings had been held between Mr. Kelly and Dee Forbes alone at any point, without legal and finance in attendance. There was a Microsoft Teams call meeting on Monday, 25 April 2022 at 12.45 p.m., and the attendees were Noel Kelly and Dee Forbes. Members will recall, from the chronology that we have supplied, that in January, February and March 2022, Mr. Kelly came looking for the money that RTÉ was obligated to provide to his client, because of the underwriting. The key thing that struck me when I saw the Renault agreement for the first time two weeks ago was that it was for a year and a quarter. Ms Geraldine O'Leary, in her testimony, has been very clear about the fact that there was no Renault deal after the first year. There were no other six events. In that situation, Mr. Kelly then wrote, that day-----