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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) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Does he not think editorial input by an advertiser compromises the organisation's mission statement?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Can he confirm that and come back to us with the documentation?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Should RTÉ stars benefit from private podcasts, for example, that actually act as competition to RTÉ? Does anyone have an opinion on that? There are an awful lot of them now who are paid by RTÉ but also have their own private podcasts from which they make money. Is there going to be a review of this? Are people conflicted?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Will Mr. Lynch confirm that there is permission for those people to do all of those podcasts? There seems to be a history of blurred lines in RTÉ. Ms Doherty will be very much aware of concern about the overlap between RTÉ and Riverdance in the past, which she did very well out of. Does RTÉ need seriously to look at itself in regard to drawing a clear line between RTÉ...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Does Ms Doherty believe she was conflicted in the past?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: She does not believe that others might look at it and say, "That does not look right"?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Did Ryan Tubridy or his agent actually refuse to take a pay cut? Will the witnesses clarify that? Did he say, "No, I am not taking a cut" or did his agent on his behalf?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Who else here was aware of the July 2020 letter guaranteeing there would be no fee reductions? Let us remember that the country was in an awful state at that stage. Businesses had shut down and had not reopened. There was huge uncertainty. Who thought this was okay to be signed?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Did Mr. Lynch think it was not a great idea?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: It was not a great bit of business and a lot of people are very angry about it. At the time there was huge uncertainty. Mr. Collins knew about it as well.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: That was how the letter was described. That somehow escaped the page.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: To conclude then, when RTÉ executives took pay cuts some time ago, car allowances were introduced in lieu. Is that right? Is anyone here in receipt of the car allowance?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Was that introduced at a time after pay cuts?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: I take it everyone who has the car allowance has a car.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Are there people in the organisation who do not have a car still availing of the car allowance? Is it vouched?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Will details be provided about who is in receipt of it?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Will Mr. Lynch advise us also whether it is vouched?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: Can I ask for clarification on that? Witnesses were saying that this was just before the Covid-19 pandemic period but it is written down here that €2,115 was noted on 30 September 2020, which was roughly around when the second wave of the virus was hitting us. RTÉ reinstated the arrangement then, at the start of the second Covid wave.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)
Brendan Griffin: But RTÉ reinstated it in September.