Former RTÉ presenter Ryan Tubridy arrives at the Dail before giving evidence to Public Accounts Committee in July. Photograph: Alan Betson
In the confidential memo, Mr Collins told the RTÉ chair that the public underreporting of Tubridy’s earnings by €120,000 for the period 2017 to 2019 was due to RTÉ “erroneously” crediting a bonus that was due to Tubridy against the fees that were actually paid to him for the three years concerned. “There is no logic for this,” he said.
The board said that a second review, by Grant Thornton, was investigating how Tubridy’s earnings came to be publicly understated by €120,000 for the period 2017 to 2019. It did not indicate that it appeared that the fault for the underreporting of these payments lay with RTÉ and not the presenter.