Presenter told Oireachtas committees bonus issue was among the number of ‘untruths’ in RTÉ pay controversy
When the negotiations were over, Tubridy had agreed he would not be seeking payment of a €120,000 bonus or loyalty fee due at the end of his old contract. He would be entering into a new contract where he would get paid less for his delivery of TV and radio services over the coming five years but would be doing public appearances for Renault, the sponsor of The Late Late Show, for which he would be receiving €75,000 a year, not from RTÉ but from the sponsor.
The public disclosure understated Tubridy’s actual earnings over the three years by €120,000. It appears this was because the presenter’s decision not to seek the €120,000 bonus cited in his expired contract was treated in RTÉ's books in such a way that the amount of money he hadwas reduced in the published figures. Tubridy’s stated earnings were reduced by €20,000 for 2017, and €50,000 for each of the following two years. The logic for doing this is still not clear.
In its statement in June last, the RTÉ board corrected the January 2021 declaration, and increased Tubridy’s stated earnings for 2017, 2018, and 2019 to the amounts that he had actually been paid.The board statement also dealt with three €75,000 payments that Tubridy has received in the period since his new contract was signed. RTÉ now says this money came directly or indirectly from the station, so should be added to Tubridy’s earnings for the years concerned.
It is the addition of these three €75,000 figures, and the €120,000, that gives rise to the figure of €345,000, which is being widely cited as the totality of the understatement of Tubridy’s earnings from RTÉ for the period 2017 to 2022.
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