RTÉ presenter and his agent faced pushback from politicians over payments made as part of commercial deal with Renault
The two men faced pushback and scepticism from politicians across the spectrum, however. Labour leader Alan Kelly told them “I don’t buy any of it” when discussing the way in which payments were arranged as part of a Renault commercial agreement.
Tubridy said another “untruth” was that he did not ask RTÉ about their under-declarations of his salary when they released the 2017, 2018 and 2019 earnings. Noel Kelly told the PAC it was the idea of RTÉ's former commercial director Geraldine O’Leary to label invoices for payments due to Tubridy as “consultancy fees”.
Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon asked if Noel Kelly colluded in a “falsehood of concealment” by labelling the invoices consultancy fees. Mr Kelly said “we had no benefit in seeking to suppress” any payments.Another key issue is around RTÉ's decision to underwrite the Renault deal, meaning they would have to step in and pay the money to Tubridy if the commercial company could not.
Mr Kelly added: “To our surprise, Ms O’Keeffe told the committee last week that when she left RTÉ in March there was no support to provide that type of guarantee and no such guarantee was on offer. But she had written to us making exactly that offer a month earlier.”The presenter also said his decision to step down from The Late Late Show was not driven in any way by concerns raised by auditors. He said he stepped down because “I ran out of gas.
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