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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Can I ask that a ten-year record of the barter account be published and given to this committee and to the Committee of Public Accounts? It would be a very useful piece of work, if that could be produced as soon as possible. The Grant Thornton report states, on page 15, that "The Talent's Agent has also advised me that they have identified a substantial number of invoices on behalf of...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Do we know where those invoices went?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Okay, so Mr. Collins has no knowledge of the whereabouts any of those substantial number of invoices that Mr. Kelly talked about, which have gone in labelled "consultancy fees", and that he himself referred to their true nature being to conceal their true purpose?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: It is not clear.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: It may not be clear but my interpretation is that he was talking specifically about RTÉ. Could we get clarity on that? In terms of the five-year contract negotiated with Ryan Tubridy, we know of the clause for €75,000 in additional payments to Mr. Tubridy. Where is it in writing, that RTÉ agreed to underwrite that agreement? Is there a side letter? Is there something to-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: A verbal agreement?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: A verbal agreement. So there was a-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Okay.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: On that basis, it was deemed to be legally sound. There was commentary there from earlier on, I think it was Ms Geraldine O'Leary again, she said there was an urgency to raise the invoices based on this verbal agreement that was in place.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: A written version of it?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Okay, so very unprofessional, very shady and very dodgy in my mind. Can I ask that a copy of the full five-year contract be furnished to the committee? Can the tripartite agreement be made public also?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Any other side letters that might have been signed off on or attached might also be very useful. I have a couple of more questions if that is okay. Regarding the deal for €75,000 and the perceived obligations on Ryan Tubridy to engage in three different public events or commercial gigs, who made the decision or where was the decision taken for RTÉ to pay out €47,000 for...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: That was the conversation but there was no written agreement around any of that, was there?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: A number of email correspondences?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Okay.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: I presume all of those-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: Yes. Can I ask that that correspondence be also made public? I find it absolutely unbelievable and astonishing that without any agreements, side letters or any of that, the whole thing is extraordinary in the first instance. When we are dealing with an organisation that, on the face of it and publicly stating it was on its knees, we had people who were falsely being put on bogus...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: -----at a time when we need public service broadcasting more than ever-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: -----to challenge a lot of the untruths out there-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)
John Brady: -----and what has happened undermines that. We have an opportunity here to rectify it all but we need honesty.