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. Richard Collins:

-----of it in emails where Noel Kelly was looking for this indemnity to be given but as far as I was concerned we had a meeting on 30 April. It was discussed at that meeting and the director general confirmed that no guarantee would be given. This email the Deputy is referring to came through in July. Looking at that email, there is nothing in it that would indicate to me that any guarantee is being given there. I read that email and it looked to me that RTÉ had incorrectly invoiced Renault and was crediting that invoice and asking Renault to do the invoice.