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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I find that hard to believe of someone with Mr. Kelly's experience as a company director or that a flag would not be raised by somebody auditing within his company. What percentage did Mr. Kelly get of the Renault deal in year one, which totalled €92,250? Did Mr. Kelly get a cut of that deal or was it solely for Mr. Tubridy?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I want to know whether there was a percentage for Mr. Kelly in the arrangement that was put together for RTÉ. Mr. Kelly is saying it was with RTÉ so I want to know whether there was a percentage for NKM. Did Mr. Kelly benefit financially from this arrangement over the three-year term or was it solely for the benefit of Tuttle Productions?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: This is core to the issue at hand. That is why I am asking the question.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Cathaoirleach, do I not have a right to ask the question? I think it is relevant to what we are discussing.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I think it is. It is completely relevant.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: That is disappointing. As we said at the beginning, we are trying to get all the facts and answers to all the questions. It is disappointing that Mr. Kelly would not answer that question, which is core to the whole situation. Staying on that topic, why did Mr. Kelly invoice a different company, CMS Marketing, in the second two years, rather than NK Management, which he invoiced in 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)

Micheál Carrigy: Arthur Cox has therefore said to redact certain email addresses but not other email addresses listed in the correspondence that went over and back.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Why provide some and not others? If it was a matter of GDPR then they would all be redacted.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: That therefore tells us that there is other staff and other people who have knowledge of these agreements and we do not know about them. We have only been informed of the executives. It would be pertinent for us as a committee to know who these people were.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Maybe that is a question that we could ask as a committee to RTÉ so that we can have this information and names shown to us.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Deputy Griffin mentioned earlier the email threads between the witnesses and RTÉ in that January to March period. Would it be possible to get sight of those email threads? Deputy Griffin asked for it earlier and did not get an answer. Would it be possible to get those?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: The only emails we have are really pertinent to April-ish time 2022. I am referring to January to March, leading up to these invoices being raised. What was the discussion from NK Management to RTÉ looking for these invoices to be fulfilled or looking for the contract to be fulfilled? I would like to know who initiated that conversation. I would like to see the conversation over and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: No, those documents are dated 29 April. It states "Hi Geraldine" and is from "J". I presume that is Jim Jennings. It states that "ASTUS" is to be used. Yet, in previous testimony, we had been told in previous weeks that there was a bit of pressure coming for these amounts to be paid. I would like to see any correspondence that went over and back to see how that conversation happened 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)

Micheál Carrigy: Is it the case, therefore, that out of the blue, RTÉ or Jim Jennings decided to email Geraldine O'Leary to tell her they needed to invoice ASTUS? It was stated - although I cannot recall who said it - in one of the previous meetings, that there was pressure put on for these two amounts to be paid. I would like to see correspondence in order that I can see who elicited that pressure and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Is it therefore the case that Mr. Kelly did not contact RTÉ at any stage looking for these two amounts to be paid? Is it the case that RTÉ came to him looking to put this deal in place?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: All right. We will be asking RTÉ for its correspondence to see if it is of a similar view. What RTÉ has said to us as a committee does not tally with what Mr. Kelly has said. It stated they were under pressure from NK Management to fulfil the contract. We will get all that information. We will elicit it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I apologise. I was held up for a couple of minutes, so I went over.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I am delighted that Mr. Tubridy clarified that the money will be refunded if the six shows do not take place.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: It would have helped if that information had come out earlier, to be honest.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: Today was the first I heard about it. I felt very strongly that that money needs to be paid back. No taxes have been paid on it.