‘Change in tone’ from senior executives in second day of forensic questioning before Oireachtas Committee
3. Salaries beyond the top ten will now also be published
Chair of the board Siún Ní Raghallaigh said further salary figures will be published for other high earners in the organisation. She undertook to do so “in as soon as is practicably possible.” She gave the answer in response to questions from Fianna Fáil TD James O’Connor. There was an awkward moment halfway through the committee hearing when chief financial officer Richard Collins was asked what his salary is, especially given it was going to be published anyway.
More revelations about employee contracts and the future of the RTÉ board were revealed in the Public Accounts Committee.Committee members were keen to get to the bottom of how the €75k top-ups were labelled as being for “consultancy fees” on invoices. Paula Mullooly, director of legal affairs in RTÉ, told the committee that it was “highly inappropriate” that the invoices were labelled as consultancy fees, when it has since emerged that they were top-up payments.
RTÉ's Adrian Lynch has said it was possible that Ryan Tubridy knew the under-reporting of his pay may be revealed before he stepped down from the Late Late.Although it emerged just before the PAC started, and not during the meeting, it was revealed that the new Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty will be paid €250,000 per season. In a statement, Kielty said: “I’m being paid €250,000 per 30 show season. If additional shows are requested by RTÉ, they’ll be paid on a pro-rata basis.
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