No other board member had ‘all necessary information’ to understand incorrect published pay figures, deputy DG says with release of Grant Thornton report
The statement also noted that Dee Forbes has not has an opportunity to respond to the account supplied by RTÉ and “may therefore challenge or disagree with our understanding and position.”
RTÉ released the latest statement and the Grant Thornton review into payments made to Mr Tubridy between 2020 and 2022 amid growing public and political anger over the national broadcaster’s failure to disclose €345,000 in payments made to the station’s highest-paid earner since 2017. In the months afterwards, the detail of the agreement with The Late Late Show sponsor Renault, and also the guarantee that RTÉ would underwrite, was thrashed out in a series of meetings and communications between RTÉ and Mr Kelly.
The RTÉ statement says that the agreement to underwrite the agreement between Tubridy and Renault agreed by Forbes, despite objections from within RTÉ: “The director general verbally agreed to underwrite the terms of the commercial arrangement. Present at this meeting was the director general, two representatives of the agent and the RTÉ solicitor. This final aspect had been sought by the agent throughout the negotiations and there had been significant push back by RTÉ.
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