Presenter and agent Noel Kelly to claim the blame for payments controversy rests with RTÉ
: Tubridy and Kelly to come out fighting at Oireachtas meeting as reconciliation looks a long way offRyan Tubridy, his agent Noel Kelly have taken ther places at the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee. The chair of the committee, Brian Stanley TD, is informing them about defamation rules and the matters to be discussed during the committee.
“RTÉ rejects the claim that an incorrect version of events was presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee and/or to the Dáil Committee of Public Accounts regarding RTÉ's agreement to underwrite payments of €75,000 per contract year due to Mr Tubridy. He accuses the broadcaster of failing to disclose the full facts about his payment arrangements and also issuing a statement that was “deeply damaging” to him on June 22nd.
“Instead they chose to hurriedly issue a deeply damaging statement on June 22nd which failed to include the full facts,” he has stated. “But to be clear – I took a pay cut from RTÉ of 20% in 2020 for each of the five years of my contract, at a cost of €525,000 to me over the length of that contract. Discussing the €75,000 a year deal with Renault, Mr Kelly had stated “we would also need a side letter agreement from RTÉ to guarantee and underwrite this fee for the duration of this contract and beyond.”
“This is unequivocally confirmed in an email dated 20 February 2020 from Breda O’Keeffe to my agent,” he will tell the committee. “Everyone in RTÉ who needed to know knew ... Far from being secret, it was well known,” he will say.Ryan Tubridy has denied he was aware at any time that RTÉ had concealed payments to him, in his opening statement to the Oireachtas committees:
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