The presenter went for a win when he should have accepted a one-all draw
Instead, Tubridy tried to go for a late winner by arguing a purely semantic point. His statement, issued after the Grant Thornton report came out, said: “It is also clear that my actual income from RTÉ in 2020 and 2021 matches what was originally published as my earnings for those years.”
The amount paid from the RTÉ payroll system to Tubridy was, indeed, equal to what was shown in the original high earners’ report, before it was adjusted by the board. But the figures were restated due to the Renault deal, which was funded not from RTÉ's payroll but from the now-infamous barter account. And Grant Thornton has found that the board’s restatement, counting this as part of Tubridy’s pay, was correct, as in the end RTÉ picked up the tab.
It is unfortunate that Dee Forbes, the former director general, has not been available to give her view on the origin and motivation of the Renault deal. And that RTÉ has claimed legal privilege in relation to a note of key discussions on the deal during an online call in May 2020 between Forbes and Kelly, which might well have thrown light on this.
But a separate manoeuvre was done in terms of the high earners’ List. A decision was reached to “offset” the €120,000 bonus foregone by Tubridy against his 2017-2019 pay, details of which were published in early 2021. The ostensible rationale was that there were potential extra duties in the 2015 to 2020 contract which Tubridy had not been asked to undertake and that is was reasonable to deduct money from the reported payments for this reason.
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