Watch live: €1.25m RTÉ barter account spend included €138,000 on Irish rugby tickets
Hope his colleagues protect the best of RTE, as they should, while dealing with the worst, as they must.BREAKING NEWS from our Northern editor Freya MacClements. Patrick Kielty has revealed his salary for presenting The Late Late Show. Here is his statement in full:
“The contract allows me to submit flight and accommodation expenses, but I’ve waived this. I’ve made it clear to RTÉ that I will be covering my own flights and accommodation costs. The committee will hear that there is a need for the broadcaster to “give a full account of all the circumstances that have led to the making of these payments [to Ryan Tubridy] and the understatement of earnings”.
The Taoiseach said Ms Martin was approaching a person to head the Government’s review into RTÉ and expected that the Coalition would announce that tomorrow, or early next week. He said questions about the funding of the broadcaster were a separate matter to the current controversy, but he said that public service broadcasting “is not just about RTÉ”.
“It’s difficult for Government to make any fundamental decisions around the future funding model in the maelstrom RTÉ is in,” he said. “We would hope that this is going to be dealt with over a relatively short period of time, and the decisions can be made. But the Government’s commitment to public service broadcasting is assured and will continue into the future.
“We are trying to get to the bottom of what happened when it comes to these unusual clandestine payments in RTÉ,” Mr Varadkar told journalists at the EU summit in Brussels. The other questions relate to his successor Patrick Kielty. Will he now walk away given the hassle involved? His resumé would suggest that the last TV series he hosted was in 2016 for BBC Northern Ireland called Delete, Delete, Delete. It may explain the alacrity to which he accepted the job as Late Late Show host and his willingness to allow his salary to become publicly available.
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