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- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Mr. Tubridy in his statement emphasised the importance of the full truth and stated that the full truth was concealed. In his opinion, and after what we have heard from Mr. Kelly, who does he believe was responsible for concealing the truth?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Does Mr. Tubridy think his agent colluded with RTÉ to conceal these payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Mr. Tubridy's earnings went up by €75,000 in 2020, credited from Renault on a side deal, and he then received another €150,000 in 2022 underwritten at the request of RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Am I missing something here? Between April 2020 and July 2020, when we were in the middle of a pandemic, Mr. Tubridy took a 20% pay cut on his contract, which was signed on 1 April. These side deals were undertaken at a time when the country was going through huge difficulty and Mr. Tubridy feels these payments should not have been put into the public domain.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Even though RTÉ, as we have heard from Mr. Tubridy's agent, was responsible for the payment of these invoices.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Again, who suggested the side deal of any description?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: The tripartite agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Who wanted the underwriting in the first instance?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: RTÉ claimed that it completely rejected the claim of underwriting the Renault tripartite agreement. Does Mr. Kelly accept what RTÉ said about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: What date is on that?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: I thank our guests for the earlier session.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: It was very constructive. I will follow on from Deputy O'Sullivan's line of questioning. RTÉ previously stated that it never made cash transactions to the barter system for presenters and that this situation was particularly unusual. It outlined that the primary use was for media companies in exchange for goods and services. Has Mr. Kelly ever made any cash payments through the...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Why were you-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Alan Dillon: Why would Mr. Kelly not make a cash transaction through a barter system?