RTÉ pay controversy: TV licence sales down by €2.2m in first three weeks of July

, but that the figure was later deducted from his published earnings - from amounts that had already been paid to him.

The issue of the treatment of the 2017-2019 earnings is separate to the main controversy over his pay, which relates to three payments of €75,000 to Tubridy stemming from a deal between him, Renault and RTÉ.The payments were ultimately all funded by RTÉ, either by means of a credit note issued to Renault, which made the first €75,000 payment, or through its barter account, which made the other two €75,000 payments on the basis of invoices for “consultancy services”.

During an Oireachtas committee meeting over the controversy, Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon asked RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurstfor work related to the Renault deal which has not yet been done. Tubridy had previously told the committee he was willing to repay the sums if he did not fulfil the duties. Mr Bakhurst said that on a legal basis, it might not be possible to claw the money back but he said that if Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly “decide to pay it back because it’s the right thing to do then we would welcome that”.

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