Grant Thornton has submitted a new report on Ryan Tubridy’s pay to the RTÉ board, the national broadcaster said on Monday.
The new report, dubbed “Grant Thornton 2″, is likely to open a new phase of political scrutiny into the RTÉ affairs.
The deputy chair of the Public Accounts Committee Catherine Murphy has called on RTÉ to publish the second Grant Thornton report as soon as the RTÉ executive board have received it. After limited and at times confusing details from RTÉ about the undeclared 2017-2019 payments, the lack of a clear explanation has long been one the big outstanding questions.
At one point in the controversy RTÉ financial controller Richard Collins linked the underdeclared €120,000 to a “loyalty bonus” which was due to Tubridy at the end of his last contract in 2020 but not actually paid.RTÉ funding model a ticking timebomb as licence fee take keeps falling and Tubridy controversy far from over“That was never paid and never accrued for in the accounts.
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