Ryan Tubridy will tell the Public Accounts Committee and the Oireachtas Media Committee that there have been “seven untruths” told about the RTÉ payment scandal.
In a lengthy opening statement, Mr Tubridy will detail “seven untruths” that have been told in recent weeks.“This is not true,” Mr Tubridy will say.“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,” he will say.
“I informed management on March 13th of this year. I first became aware of the Grant Thornton review in May – some two months later. Even then, I had no inkling of the bombshell which was to come when RTÉ released their statement on June 22.”“I fully accept I am very well-paid but I was paid fully in accordance with my contract, which my agent negotiated openly, honestly and in good faith. There are no over-payments.
“The work that I have done for Renault is all over social media. The suggestion that this was secret just makes no sense.”He will state that this was not a secret and RTÉ committed in February 2020 to guarantee this.That he did not ask RTÉ about their under-declarations of his earnings when they released the 2017, 2018 and 2019 earnings.