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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)
Malcolm Byrne: Who does Mr. Tubridy think he is paying it to?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: I want to come to Mr. Kelly. He is a very experienced negotiator and we know this in terms of those he represents. I asked the questions when the executive were in here about who was in the room with you. Mr. Kelly kindly outlined to some our colleagues earlier today who he had been dealing with. One of the key people who very clearly knew about some of the deals was Jim Jennings. Is 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)
Malcolm Byrne: I appreciate that the lawyers would have done it but lawyers do not go out and cut the deal. Lawyers are the ones who will sign off the deal.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: So you were negotiating at the time of the 2020 contract.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: At the time everyone in RTÉ was accepting there were going to be cuts.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: We know how difficult the situation was. Mr. Kelly is asking us to believe that while Mr. Tubridy could go off and negotiate his book deal or his documentary separately as a contractor, in this instance, while all of these salary cuts were happening in RTÉ, somebody in RTÉ just came to him and said, "Noel, listen, we are going to offer a deal now with Renault, here is the deal."...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: Was it Breda who struck the deal?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: I appreciate it, but Mr. Kelly knew who this deal was on behalf of.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: RTÉ was coming to Mr. Tubridy who was facing a pay cut. Why, for instance, did Mr. Kelly not go off 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)
Malcolm Byrne: Why would Mr. Kelly not have gone and negotiated directly with Renault?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: Did you not find it odd that we were in this period and colleagues have already talked about it, coming into Covid, when there were pay cuts going on in RTÉ, that suddenly RTÉ was able to come with a deal and offer to mitigate some of this loss by Mr. Kelly agreeing to do these gigs with Renault?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: At the same time, Mr. Kelly made sure, and it was he who made sure, that RTÉ underwrote the deal.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: It was originally to be a one-year deal.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: So your hope was that Renault over five years----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: ---were going to keep doing this.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: What if Renault pulled out? Was it always Mr. Kelly's understanding that if Renault pulled out it did not matter, his client was still going to get his sum of money every year?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: Or if there was not a new----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: Okay. So then why was it that RTÉ are continuing to make payments?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Malcolm Byrne: Did you not ask then who Astus 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)
Malcolm Byrne: Would it not have struck Mr. Kelly? If I was getting €75,000 from a company like Astus I would surely ask who Astus are.