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Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Well done, Aodhán, fantastic speech on the day that is in it. We in the Labour Party are bringing forward this motion very much on purpose. Our ladies are going to the World Cup and we all wish them well and give them our support. It is also an opportunity for us to focus on this sport which is across every part of Ireland yet does not have the support, facilities or engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (12 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: 127. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when applications will open on the 2023 sports capital funding programme; when the applications will close; when the allocations for 2023 will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34523/23]

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I will stay where we are at the moment. I read the documents but they were too late. It was insulting to the committee and to the staff. It did not go down well. However, I found the documents quite compelling and a very strong rebuttal. Those were some of my initial thoughts. It is beginning to fall apart a bit. RTÉ and the DG are obviously watching this. The statement issued by...

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: No, I am asking Mr. Tubridy a very simple question.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I know; it is tiresome.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Did Mr. Tubridy work the same number of hours on his radio show and TV show from 2019 to 2023 as he did per year from 2015 to 2019?

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: So it the exact same.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: So Mr. Kelly did not look for any changes in the contract to reduce the number of hours or the end time

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I know. I was on it.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: My point was whether there were any changes to Mr. Tubridy's hours in actual real terms contractually and Mr. Tubridy is saying "No".

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I will return to the CMS versus NK Management issue because I was very interested in Paula Mullooly's overlap of various different emails regarding the audit that came through. She asked about the invoices on 3 May regarding the two payments of €75,000. The emails go to NK Management but the response is from CMS. The response is information from CMS. Has CMS done a large quantity...

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Why would NK Management be swapped out and CMS put in for payment purposes and communication purposes from a corporate management point of view?

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Throwing his eyes up to heaven and saying they cross over-----

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: From a corporate governance and an accountancy point of view-----

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: I am going to be straight. I do not buy any of that. I do not think anybody listening or watching or anybody in this room buys that. Deputies Dillon and Ó Cathasaigh went through this. This is not appropriate regarding how things should be done. A third company called Noel Kelly Management Nominees Limited was set up and registered on 16 March 2023.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: What is the purpose of that?

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Fine. It has nothing to do with anything here.

Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: That is fine. From his perspective, Mr. Kelly gets advertising clients for RTÉ on the one hand while, on the other, he represents various clients as an agent to the stars or talent or whatever phrase people are using these days. Mr. Kelly must have been doing a significant amount of business for RTÉ as regards generating advertising revenue on the one hand and negotiating fairly...