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- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: So it was a coincidence?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: I am not getting a clear answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Mr. Kelly is leading us to believe it was pure coincidence that it was signed in April, a month after Deloitte raised these issues and a number of years after the contract came about. Can I just ask, in regard to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: In regard to the commercial contract, Mr. Kelly said it was Breda O'Keeffe who came up with the idea of this commercial contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Is that a normal thing or would this be unusual in terms of negotiating on behalf of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay, for the people Mr. Kelly represents, would it be normal that RTÉ would put forward proposals for a commercial element to be part of the contract? Would that be normal, or an exception?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: It is an exception. Are there no other cases involving any other people?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: There are no other cases. In regard to the invoicing, we know there was an attempt, and a trail is there, that no names were to appear on the invoices. Whose suggestion was it to label them as consultancy fees?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Who in RTÉ informed Mr. Kelly to put it down as consultancy fees?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Okay, in the Grant Thornton review it states very clearly that no consultancy fees were provided either by the talent or the talent's agents and it did not reflect the substance of the transactions. The then chief financial officer, under questioning last week in regard to the legality of these invoices, stated it was his view that the public had been defrauded because of the labelling of...
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Would Mr. Kelly agree with the former chief financial officer that the taxpayer was, potentially, defrauded given no consultancy fees had been provided?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Who issued the invoices to RTÉ?
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: NK Management issued invoices labelled as consultancy fees-----
- Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: -----knowing that no consultancy fees had been provided.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Through the Chair, if that €75,000 in payments were made with taxpayers' money, I think Mr. Kelly has-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: -----an obligation to answer that 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)
John Brady: Good afternoon again to the witnesses and I thank them for staying with us. I want to start off with the tripartite agreement between Renault Ireland Limited, RTÉ and Ryan Tubridy. Was Mr. Kelly involved in the negotiations around the content of this agreement?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
John Brady: Was Mr. Kelly involved in the negotiations on 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)
John Brady: There is very specific detail here in terms of dates. We know that, because of Covid, those dates were not honoured and then, subsequently, they were. Those dates were put in without any consultation with Mr. Kelly.