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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Ms Mullooly said the email was circulated. Who was it circulated to?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Mr. Lynch said that he did not see it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Yes, four days before the testimony given by Ms O'Keeffe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Mr. Lynch sat in the meeting while Ms O'Keeffe gave very convincing testimony that there was absolutely no desire by RTÉ to give guarantees or to give a side letter. He knew that narrative was being challenged by Mr. Tubridy and Mr. Kelly and he did not feel it was necessary to give the information that the narrative being portrayed by Ms O'Keeffe was being challenged.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: It is clear now from the revelation of these emails. The people who are copied, including Dee Forbes, Jim Jennings and Breda O'Keeffe, referred to the meetings and we have no knowledge who attended those meetings. There was an attempt to portray this as some sort of situation where people were operating in silos, that nobody, bar one person, had all the information. That was certainly not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: The critical information with respect to the commercial agreement of €75,000 is the notion and assurances given, that contained in those emails, that RTÉ - "we" - would issue a side letter and the number of people who were copied in on that critical information shows there was not a situation of people operating in silos. Key people in key roles at the top of the organisation knew...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: I will move on because I am conscious of time. I will talk about the two payments of €75,000 that were paid out by RTÉ. It has now been stated, and we know factually, there was no contract for years two and three. We know invoices were issued using the terminology "consultancy fee". We know from the Grant Thornton report that no consultancy was provided by either the agent or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Sorry, Mr. Lynch. Can I just get to the crux of it here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Mr. Tubridy and his agent were paid out for services that were not provided, essentially. Mr. Tubridy said that, if asked, he will pay back that €150,000 to RTÉ. When previously challenged on why RTÉ paid out those payments, it said it was based on legal advice. What is now the position of RTÉ? Has RTÉ asked Mr. Tubridy and his agent to repay that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: I want to ask a question about the payments from 2017 to 2019 and the €120,000, and I know there is an ongoing process on that. RTÉ might give us an update on where that is because it appears that payment was not made to Ryan Tubridy. Would I be correct in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: It appears there were some sort of weird accounting practices in RTÉ.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: It was not right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: That information was put out there and in the public's mind Ryan Tubridy was guilty of receiving this payment when he did not. Would it be right to say that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay. In relation to a comment that Mr. Tubridy made when he was before the committee on Tuesday, he said that he felt his reputation was desperately sullied. In his opening statement, he set out the "seven untruths", as he put them forward. We know that those "untruths" have been challenged by Mr. Bakhurst. Have any legal papers have been served on RTÉ by Ryan Tubridy, Noel Kelly or...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Nothing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay, well Mr. Lynch has said "No". Mr. Bakhurst has said "No". The legal representative is saying that RTE does not comment, so I will take it that no papers have been served.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay. I want to ask about the barter account. It has been stated that no credit card was attached to that account. Am I correct in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay. So there is no credit card.