One of the central questions in the RTÉ payments scandal is why the national broadcaster understated Tubridy's pay from 2017 to 2019 - and new documents show how its financial officials proposed the arrangement in 2020
WHY WAS RYAN Tubridy paid more than what RTÉ said he was paid from 2017 to 2019 in public declarations by the national broadcaster?
Questions have been asked about how this discrepancy arose and auditors Grant Thornton have been asked to look into what happened between 2017 and 2019 regarding Tubridy’s pay. Ahead of his appearance alongside Tubridy before the Public Accounts Committee this morning, Kelly provided a paper trail which he claims sets the record straight about this.
A letter to Kelly’s company NK Management from RTÉ’s then-Chief Financial Officer Breda O’Keeffe in December 2019, showed the figures Tubridy was actually paid from 2017 to 2019 : However, O’Keeffe’s letter stated that from an accounting point-of-view, the €120,000 exit fee would be “written off and offset against 2017, 2018 and 2018 fees” as outlined in an “attached side letter”.
The documents also contain one final version of this letter of agreement, signed in July 2020 by both RTÉ and Noel Kelly on behalf of Ryan Tubridy.
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