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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)
Ciarán Cannon: The instructions from who?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: I am asking the question a third time. With regard to the invoice that issued to RTÉ on behalf of CMS for consultancy services, did Mr. Kelly personally see 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)
Ciarán Cannon: Mr. Kelly cannot remember. How many years has the company Noel Kelly Management been issuing invoices to RTÉ for services rendered across all of its roster of clients?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: So CMS would have invoiced RTÉ in previous times for other services rendered.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: In the Grant Thornton report, the reporter or the person who compiled that audit says the following: “I met with the Talent’s Agent in relation to this Review.” Does Mr. Kelly recall that meeting?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: The report states that Mr. Kelly advised that: “The Talent’s Agent understood from this, that in a situation where the Commercial Brand relationship with RTÉ no longer existed or the Commercial Brand did not pay the €75,000 to the Talent that RTÉ would be obliged to step in and pay the Talent this sum.” Is that Mr. Kelly's recollection of the engagement...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: It is from the report that was submitted by Grant Thornton on the audit in respect of RTÉ.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: It is point 2.3, paragraph (g). It is a direct quote. I am reading directly from the auditor's report.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: Does Mr. Kelly see paragraph (g)?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: It states: “The Talent’s Agent understood from this, that in a situation where the Commercial Brand relationship with RTÉ no longer existed or the Commercial Brand did not pay the €75,000 to the Talent that RTÉ would be obliged to step in and pay the Talent this sum.”
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: But you required that RTÉ would.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: The bottom line is that Mr. Kelly, who was acting in his client's interests, in order to ensure that this €75,000 would be made for the whole period of the five-year term-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: No, it is not by Renault. You explicitly asked RTÉ-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: Why then did you require-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: That is okay.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: Can I stop Mr. Kelly there? He has been mentioning the new sponsor opportunity all day long.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: We were in the middle of a pandemic so Fluffy Pillows 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)
Ciarán Cannon: Fluffy Pillows etc. were not exactly queueing up in the middle of a pandemic to fork out €75,000 per annum for whatever services might be offered. The bottom line is that Mr. Kelly was aware, entering into a really difficult period for the country and for business financially, that there was a possibility that no sponsor might exist for the remaining years of the contract, and he...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: But-----
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)
Ciarán Cannon: No one is disagreeing with that.