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Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: So Mr. Kelly did not look for any changes in the contract to reduce the number of hours or the end time

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I know. I was on it.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: My point was whether there were any changes to Mr. Tubridy's hours in actual real terms contractually and Mr. Tubridy is saying "No".

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I will return to the CMS versus NK Management issue because I was very interested in Paula Mullooly's overlap of various different emails regarding the audit that came through. She asked about the invoices on 3 May regarding the two payments of €75,000. The emails go to NK Management but the response is from CMS. The response is information from CMS. Has CMS done a large quantity...

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Why would NK Management be swapped out and CMS put in for payment purposes and communication purposes from a corporate management point of view?

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Throwing his eyes up to heaven and saying they cross over-----

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: From a corporate governance and an accountancy point of view-----

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I am going to be straight. I do not buy any of that. I do not think anybody listening or watching or anybody in this room buys that. Deputies Dillon and Ó Cathasaigh went through this. This is not appropriate regarding how things should be done. A third company called Noel Kelly Management Nominees Limited was set up and registered on 16 March 2023.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: What is the purpose of that?

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Fine. It has nothing to do with anything here.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: That is fine. From his perspective, Mr. Kelly gets advertising clients for RTÉ on the one hand while, on the other, he represents various clients as an agent to the stars or talent or whatever phrase people are using these days. Mr. Kelly must have been doing a significant amount of business for RTÉ as regards generating advertising revenue on the one hand and negotiating fairly...

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: No.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: NK Management gets sponsors for RTÉ for advertising purposes for shows.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: If Mr. Kelly will not give me this information, I will ask RTÉ for information about advertising and clients for the past ten years so we will get it all. My last three questions are for Mr. Tubridy. Earlier his representative, Mr. Kelly, stated that a contract is not a contract unless it is agreed by both parties. Where does Mr. Tubridy stand currently as regards his relationship with...

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Was it for Mr. Tubridy or someone else?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: On a point of order-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: It is about the documents we are looking for. Are they being issued to us? Were they issued to the media before they were sent to us? It looks like they have been.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Have the documents gone to the media already?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: We have not seen them.