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RYAN TUBRIDY AND his agent Noel Kelly will today appear before two Oireachtas committees today over RTÉ’s failure to disclose €345,000 worth of payments to the presenter.Both men have delivered their opening statements to PAC and have been incredibly critical of RTÉ.
15 minutes ago 11:25AM Noel Kelly opening statement Ryan Tubridy’s agent Noel Kelly is now addressing the committee, and his statement can be read here.Adds that the past few weeks have been “hugely damaging to Ryan Tubridy, to myself, and to my own business”. 21 minutes ago 11:19AM Under-declarations of earnings His final and seventh “untruth” is about why Tubridy didn’t question the under-declaration of his earnings.
He “accepts” he is “very well paid” but adds that he was “paid fully in accordance with my contract, which my agent negotiated openly”. 37 minutes ago 11:03AM Opening proceedings PAC chair Brian Stanley has opened proceedings, with both Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly to deliver opening statements.
“RTE executives have said how there was a strong ‘push-back’ against the idea of underwriting the agreement. That is incorrect.”1 hour ago 10:01AM Ryan Tubridy has been made the “poster boy” for the undeclared payments scandal at RTE, Noel Kelly will tell the committee. “It’s a national institution. Almost 100 years old. A massive business turning over hundreds of millions of euros each year. It has internal and external auditors. It has a heavyweight board. Teams of financial advisors and accountants.
“For clarity, the claim relates specifically to an email that was sent by the former CFO of RTÉ to NK Management on 20 February 2020, which is being characterised as a contractual commitment on the part of RTÉ to underwrite the payments in question. Kelly said that he and Tubridy had asked RTÉ to give them “reasonable” notice ahead of presenter salaries being published.“If they had done that, we would have had Qme to check the figures and avoid errors. However, RTE ignored our request for reasons which l don’t understand.”
“I have always found the Irish people to be very fair, and I am hopeful that they will see from my statement and my appearance here today that I am determined to inform them of the truth and to demonstrate that I have nothing to hide.2 hours ago 9:16AM He will tell the committee he is “particularly upset and disappointed” about the “decision and framing” of the RTÉ statement on 22 June which he will say “inextricably linked” his name to “this whole fiasco”.
2 hours ago 9:03AM The seventh “untruth” that Tubridy will outline is that he “did not ask RTÉ about their under-declarations of my earnings when they released the 2017, 2018 and 2019 earnings on the one day, January 20th 2021″. 2 hours ago 9:01AM Tubridy will tell the committee that it is “not true” that he “was aware that RTÉ were trying to conceal payments” to him.
2 hours ago 8:54AM Tubridy will also tell the Oireachtas that the suggestion his decision to retire from the Late Late Show was “prompted by this whole debacle” is “not true”. “I took a 20% pay cut from RTÉ in my 2020-2025 contract. That’s it. I took a 20% pay cut from RTÉ. I am obliged to do 205 radio shows and 38 live two-hour Late Late Shows under this contract,” Tubridy will say.
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