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- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Yes, the public purse.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Kelly requested that it be underwritten by RTÉ, and that could only mean that RTÉ takes the hit for it and ponies up.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: I want to move on, because time is of the essence. Mr. Kelly refers to page 25 in the pack. It is page 6 in his statement. There was an email from the commercial director for the two by three invoices for €75,000 to be raised, and there was an instruction not to put any person's name on it. Mr. Kelly said there was no secret about this deal, but he agreed to not putting a name on...
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Yes, but Mr. Kelly is also a businessman and negotiator-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Kelly is a businessman and a negotiator, and he looks after his clients. That is his job. There is no issue with that whatsoever. However, Mr. Kelly was instructed not to put names on the invoices - and we are not talking about €2.99 or €3.50, we are talking about invoices for €75,000 - and he knew that he had asked RTÉ to underwrite the agreement. They...
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Yes, but Mr. Kelly knew RTÉ was underwriting the deal, and that it was the €75,000 payment that was due to Mr. Tubridy, but he did not put any-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Yes. That is fair enough. We heard last week that the auditors were not happy, that Grant Thornton was brought in and that at some point, Mr. Kelly was informed of it. When was that, and was it the director general who informed Mr. Kelly, or who and when?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Its legal office, which would have been who exactly?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Okay, so RTÉ knew, Grant Thornton knew, and Mr. Kelly knew. Did he tell his client about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: I want to come to Mr. Tubridy. In 2019 - he might have seen this out in the public domain recently - he launched the St. Vincent de Paul Christmas appeal. When he was interviewed, he said that he was haunted by the idea of children in poverty, and the homeless crisis. He also said that he would accept RTÉ's cost-cutting measures graciously, and when it came to this issue, that is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: That is what it looks like. That is what it was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: In fairness, I am sure-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Sorry, just one second. We are asking questions here.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: That is absolutely fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Nobody has mentioned the work those people do. I am referring to what Mr. Tubridy stated, as quoted in the media. That is what I am referring to.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: I accept he does a lot of charity work
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: I accept that and there is nobody saying anything otherwise.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: He does that good work. However, at the same time, Mr. Tubridy knew that this separate deal was being done and that it would compensate for the pay cuts. He also knew, and this is the thing, that his agent had requested that RTÉ underwrite that agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: Sorry, I will just get to the question. He knew that the pay deal was going to make softer any pay cut that had been taken but he also knew through his agent that RTÉ was underwriting that deal. He knew that when his colleagues-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
Imelda Munster: No, I am not talking about Renault. I am talking about the tripartite-----