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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: What form did extending that opportunity take?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I have the benefit of having sat through two nearly full sessions now. There has been a lot of discussion about the barter account and about invoices and so on. I want to come back to the issue of the tripartite agreement. In what was an excellent piece of public service broadcasting on "Prime Time", Mark Coughlan gave a great summation of what has happened here. He described the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was Mr. Collins aware of a tripartite agreement and was he aware of it being cost-neutral?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: To my question about knowing about the agreement being cost-neutral the witness has said he did not know. I will ask Mr. Coveney the same question. Was he aware of it being cost-neutral?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The witness has no knowledge of a tripartite agreement. Was Ms Doherty aware of a tripartite agreement and it's cost-neutral nature?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Was Ms Mullooly aware of the cost-neutral nature of a tripartite agreement?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Since March 2021 Ms Mullooly has been aware of the tripartite agreement and the terms of it. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I will not ask the other witnesses the same questions. I am assuming that either by the evidence they have given already, or their distance or time served in the organisation that they would not be aware. Am I correct in saying that nobody else was aware of a tripartite agreement or its cost-neutral nature? Let me come back then to the second part of what Mark Coughlan described...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I want to be clear on this. The €75,000 would not be paid to RTÉ, and it would be paid to Mr. Tubridy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: As the commercial director, is the witness usually in the business of voluntarily giving away €75,000 of revenue?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: In that case, why did the witness do so?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: The witness was instructed by the director general to forego €75,000. At that point, the witness was aware that the €75,000 would not be included in payments made directly from RTÉ to Mr. Ryan Tubridy. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Surely Ms O'Leary had to have been aware of the arrangement? The deal was structured in order to keep €75,000 of RTÉ's income off the books, and that it would be paid directly from the sponsor to Mr. Tubridy. That is what the deal did. It took €75,000 of income, that otherwise would have come to RTÉ, and paid it directly to Mr. Tubridy. How could you not have known...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Ms O'Leary's answer is simply not credible. It is like as if she was working in advertising in a bus company, and we said to the advertisers: "Do not to pay the bus company directly, pay the bus driver instead and then nobody in the garage will know that the bus drive is on more money than everybody else."
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms O'Leary know that RTÉ forwent €75,000 worth of income that it would otherwise have received?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Does Ms O'Leary know that that income was going to Ryan Tubridy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: So RTÉ was paying €75,000 to Ryan Tubridy through a vehicle called the tripartite agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: I will return to the credit note. I have to ask Mr. Collins the same question. Does he accept that the tripartite agreement was essentially a vehicle to keep €75,000 of revenue that would have otherwise come to RTÉ off the books so it would go directly to Ryan Tubridy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Collins's evidence is that he had no involvement in the negotiation of the tripartite agreement, no involvement in its working out and no knowledge of it being cost neutral. I am sure he is aware of the RTÉ statement that was issued this week. In the statement, under the second point, it says: Once it has been agreed in principle by the relevant editorial lead the process of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)
Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Collins worked from January up to March, but there are also further dealings up to June. So between January and June, when the RTÉ statement says Mr. Collins should have been taking the lead on the contract, he had no involvement.