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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I welcome our guests and wish Mr. Bakhurst every success in his new role. I want to move on to the famous agreement between Mr. Tubridy, RTÉ and Renault. The agreement is with Ryan Tubridy. The main agreement with RTÉ is with Tuttle Productions Limited. The second thing is that there all sorts of side letters with this agreement. Third,, there is no mention of the fee in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Mr. Noel Kelly said on Tuesday that it was sent to him by RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Is Ms Mullooly saying he is lying?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Does Ms Mullooly not accept that the way it was done was sloppy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Was RTÉ aware of the agreement? Was the legal department aware of the agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: So RTÉ was aware of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: That agreement does not even mention the consideration.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: I know the new director general has said this morning that RTÉ will not have all these side letters in the future. I have never seen anything like this scenario where we had more side letters than we had pages in the agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Ms Mullooly was in the legal department and she was the person in charge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: On page 24 of the document we received from Noel Kelly, he refers to NK Management getting advice from the legal department about the invoice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Therefore, the legal department was aware of what was to go into that invoice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: But the legal department wrote to Noel Kelly setting out what should be in the invoice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: RTÉ's legal department wrote looking for an invoice for €75,000, and no agreement had been signed by RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: Did RTÉ not ask how an invoice can be issued when there is no agreement signed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: If Ms Mullooly comes to me to buy a house and I come along and say I want her to pay out €75,000 to the builder, even though the builder has not signed the contract, would she be concerned about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: But RTÉ was the principle player in this agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: It was a tripartite agreement and we had the legal department of RTÉ giving instructions about an invoice to be raised, even though there was no signed agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: But it sent out the email-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
Colm Burke: -----about what should be in the invoice.