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on Media the following afternoon for a second consecutive Wednesday. New documents given to the committee showed that RTÉ had used its barter accounts to spend €1.6 million on client entertainment and corporate hospitality over the previous 10 years, paying out hundreds of thousands of euro for alcohol, Ireland jerseys, golf outings, cinema screenings, balloons, lavish hotel stays, client dinners in top restaurants and dozens of match and concert tickets, as well as nearly €5,000 on 200 pairs of flip flops for a summer party. Documentation also confirmed losses at
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fees’. Commentators have drawn attention to how Renault Ireland facilitated this transaction for no apparent benefit to itself, and on other occasions supplied RTÉ staff members with the free use of cars for years on end, and said that it puts RTÉ in a position to of obligation to the giant motor manufacturer, and linked it to RTÉ’s coverage of climate change and road deaths, which they viewed as overly sympathetic to the motor industry.
634:, Kelly is seen by some as more powerful than the RTÉ Director General and is "widely believed" to offer the media negative stories about RTÉ presenters who are not his clients and whom he perceives as competitors who might get a job ahead of his client. He is known for using "strong language and pointed, personalised criticisms". At that time, Noel Kelly had 46 clients in his "celebrity portfolio", including RTÉ's Tubridy, 583:. In 2019, he stated: "I've taken a pay cut before, I took over 30pc the last time and they've asked for more, which would bring it up to about 45pc or thereabouts since I took the Late Late Show ... And when it comes to this sort of issue that's not something I've been found wanting in, and that continues to be the case". However, in early 2009, Tubridy refused to take a pay-cut (even when colleagues such as 564: 712:, 69 were management, only 31 being presenters and other technical or non-managerial staff. The Director General was paid €225,000 in 2021, along with a car allowance of €25,000 and pension contributions of €56,000, for a total package of €306,000, while the Chief Financial Officer said he earned around €200,000 plus car allowance of around €25,000 (any pension element was not disclosed). 330:(PAC) the next day. RTÉ Chief Financial Officer Richard Collins refused to say what he was earning, then admitted to a base salary of €200,000 with an additional €25,000 car allowance. Collins also admitted that "maybe the taxpayer was defrauded", while details of the RTÉ barter account's use were volunteered: €111,000 spent on trips to 699:
out on the available trade credit balance". It was revealed that of the €7.4 million in advertising revenue generated through the barter account, €1.2 million was spent on goods and services which were "outside of RTÉ's standard purchasing and procurement processes", and so internal controls and approvals processes were not followed.
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the word 'talent'. Words matter and the term, as it is currently used, reinforces a 'them and us' culture in RTÉ. It implies some have greater worth than others. The first step in cultural change is to consign this term to the dustbin". Ní Raghallaigh did not, however, suggest she would "consign this term to the dustbin".
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had approved an exit package for former chief financial officer Richard Collins despite assurances that the board had no role in signing off on exit packages for senior executives. She refused to express confidence in Siún Ní Raghallaigh, chair of the RTÉ Board. Early the next morning, Ní Raghallaigh
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becoming Director General, Rory Coveney resigned from RTÉ and his role as RTÉ Director of Strategy with immediate effect believing that "the tough job ahead of him would be made somewhat easier if he had a fresh lead team". In an email to staff the following morning, Bakhurst stood down the Executive
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RTÉ admitted on 22 June that "Tubridy received two payments of €75,000 (totalling €150,000), each in 2022 (being a payment for 2021 and a payment for 2022). It was these payments that prompted the review by Grant Thornton. These payments were recorded in an RTÉ "Barter Account" in 2022 at a value of
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Noel Kelly of NK Management negotiated the pay supplements and played a central role in funnelling them to Tubridy. The extra payments brought Tubridy's annual earnings over the €500,000 threshold each year during that time period, while allowing RTÉ to declare publicly that Tubridy was earning less
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The total staff of the broadcaster is over 1,800, plus contractors. Of these, in 2022, 119 employees had basic pay of over 100,000, 22 of those having salaries of €150,000 — €250,000. 179 staff had salaries of €80,000 — €100,000, 550 between €60,000 and €80,000, and 740 between €40,000 and €60,000.
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agreed to salary cuts), and he attracted criticism for this decision. RTÉ Board chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh, near the conclusion of her opening statement to the Public Accounts Committee on 26 June 2023, commented on the term "talent" as used within RTÉ: "Finally, can I say something about the use of
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In 2021 and 2022 the payments for Tubridy were made directly from RTÉ to NK Management, as per their ‘underwriting’ of the deal, where RTÉ were liable to make the payment if Renault Ireland did not. During his appearance before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee, Tubridy said he believed that
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as a comparison with the investigations into what RTÉ had been doing with public money. Two days later, this was raised at the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), where Fanning's reference to a "nonsensical Oireachtas Nuremberg trial" was put to newly appointed RTÉ Director General Kevin Bakhurst, who
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found two more barter accounts at RTÉ, of the type at the centre of secret payments to Tubridy. The two additional barter accounts were with agencies named Active and Miroma (in addition to Astus, the first announced). Past and present members of the RTÉ Executive Board met the Oireachtas Committee
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and RTÉ held talks over the broadcaster's series of annual budgetary deficits. In December 2019, the government agreed to increase RTÉ's funding by a further €9 million per year. Budgetary deficits remained, leading RTÉ to make more cuts to its services. RTÉ froze pay rises for its ordinary workers
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on 25 August 2023 found that RTÉ did not appear to have a "formally approved policy and procedure in place" for purchases made through the barter account. Mazars were unable to identify any benefit to RTÉ in exercising the option to make purchases through barter media agencies "rather than cashing
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Ireland, a major advertiser on RTÉ, and a frequent sponsor of the Late Late Show. Following the three-way deal, in late July 2020 Renault Ireland paid €75,000 to NK Management for Tubridy’s benefit, on foot of an invoice for “Bespoke Partnership between Renault and Ryan Tubridy”. Within days, RTÉ
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Around 100 RTÉ staff members and union representatives staged another protest at RTÉ headquarters on 12 July to call on the Government to properly fund public service broadcasting. Demonstrations were also held at RTÉ regional offices, including in Cork, where staff members marched with placards.
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In the Grant Thornton report, Noel Kelly is referred to as "The Talent's Agent". Kelly, who maintains a low profile, runs NK Management, and has been a controversial figure since at least 2011, when he claimed that some of his clients might not be able to afford a second car if RTÉ reduced their
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Tubridy and Kelly were challenged in this statement by committee members who pointed out that they had complied with RTÉ requests to omit details from invoices, in an apparent effort to disguise the true reason for the payments. The payments were falsely described in RTÉ accounts as ‘consultancy
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On 11 July, Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly appeared before two Oireachtas committee meetings, which heard that Tubridy had endured a "tortuous", "chaotic" and "destructive" three weeks during which his name and reputation were "sullied", that he had become "the face of a national scandal;
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about Kelly's ability to attract other presenters following the secret payments scandal: "Because has really destroyed Ryan Tubridy's career, by being too smart. Ryan Tubridy had an option to say no, he is not a child. But Ryan Tubridy's career has been destroyed and Noel Kelly is right in the
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In discussing past and recent executive exits from the company, it further emerged that aside from the high level of management posts, and their salary levels, there were voluntary exit schemes offered by RTÉ's Human Resources function, under which over €2.3 million was paid out to a number of
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of this during their meeting two days before. It was also revealed that Tubridy was due a €120,000 "loyalty bonus" which for some "unexplained reason" was credited against his earnings between 2017 and 2019. It was also reported that Tubridy insisted RTÉ's claim that he was out of contract was
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resigned as chair of the RTÉ Board, saying it was "abundantly clear" she no longer had the confidence of Minister Martin. Ní Raghallaigh later broke her silence and hit back at Minister Martin around what she described as her "enforced dismissal" designed to "traduce" her reputation.
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trip. On 4 July 2023, two additional barter account operators were disclosed – along with Astus (the first disclosed), these were Active and Miroma. The controversy turned to exit payments for senior executives in early 2024 which led to the resignation of Ní Raghallaigh.
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On 15 February 2023, RTÉ released the figures for its top ten earners of 2021, placing on record the figure of €440,000 it wrongly claims Tubridy earned in 2021 and allowing other reports to erroneously claim Tubridy's salary decreased by €26,250 to €466,250 from 2020.
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In documents supplied to the Oireachtas committees studying the Tubridy matter, RTÉ listed the earnings of its 100 highest-paid employees and contractors. All were on base salaries in excess of €116,000, and 84 were employees. Including the members of the
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was asked "how this is appropriate... A person who is paid by the taxpayer – through his agent – on RTÉ saying, effectively, what the Public Accounts Committee are doing..." Bakhurst responded by stating that Fanning's remarks were "not appropriate".
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on 18 January 2023 that there was no sustainable future for RTÉ without changing the ways in which RTÉ was provided with public funding, and hinted at "implications for cost and human resources". Coveney also suggested that the recent stage show
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first disclosed previously unknown arrangements concerning a leading presenter's pay, and in subsequent discussions, revelations about corporate entertainment for advertising clients, management numbers and high pay, and executive exit packages.
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contracts, in breach of guidelines on employment status, meaning that these workers were unable to access benefits of regular employment such as maternity leave, pensions, pay for illness and permission to apply for promotional posts.
1198:"Ryan Tubridy will not be on radio on Friday amid controversy over how RTÉ paid him extra €345,000 — Tubridy was paid an extra €75,000 by RTÉ in 2020 and 2021 — A review found his pay was understated by €120,000 between 2017 and 2019" 95:(PAC) on numerous occasions to explain what had happened. In late June 2023, more information on the culture within RTÉ entered the public domain, specifically what else it used the barter account for, including €111,000 on trips to 162:
in January 2021, as it "must now begin planning a series of initiatives" to deal with a "persistent gap" between its income and expenses. RTÉ and the government agreed this plan to cut €60 million at RTÉ between 2020 and 2023.
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issued a credit note for €75,000 to Renault Ireland, and there is no evidence that the ‘personal appearances’ by Tubridy for Renault mentioned on the invoice ever happened, making the deal revenue-neutral for Renault.
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had not gone to the audit and risk committee and that former Director General Dee Forbes and former Director of Strategy Rory Coveney "deliberately circumvented" established oversights in relation to the musical.
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on 28 June. RTÉ Board chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh stated that she asked Director General Dee Forbes to resign but that this request was not accepted at the time. Ní Raghallaigh also did not tell Minister
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In an early morning statement the next day, RTÉ Director General Dee Forbes announced her resignation with immediate effect. It was also confirmed that Forbes had resigned her position on the board of
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payments in RTÉ", stating: "I don't think we can rule out the fact that it's not just a case of irregular payments — and that some of these payments may have been on the wrong side of the law".
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to speak of their hurt, disappointment and anger at the way a small number of managers had betrayed and badly damaged the organisation and those who worked for it. Those who protested included
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report, which the RTÉ Board released on 26 June 2023, Ryan Tubridy is referred to as "The Talent". Tubridy often spoke in public about cuts to his pay, including in 2020 during the
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There are also indications that the holiday destination company is considering pulling out of the current arrangement prematurely amidst the ongoing 'secret payments' scandal.
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accused of being complicit, deceitful and dishonest" and blamed RTÉ with creating a "fog of confusion over what I was paid and when I was paid, what I knew, and when I knew".
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Board and replaced it with an interim leadership team, meanwhile RTÉ Director of Commercial Geraldine O'Leary announced her early retirement with immediate effect.
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which she was heavily involved in establishing. She later announced she would not be attending Oireachtas committee meetings later in the week for health reasons.
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reached €2.2 million, with just 11,044 tickets being sold for the shows, meanwhile Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly offered to meet with the two committees.
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I was under the understanding that the payments had come from Renault, a very successful commercial company, so I did not feel that it was an RTÉ situation.
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departing figures, with at least one payment rumoured to be on the order of 400,000 euro. The new Director General announced a review of these packages.
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chairperson Siún Ní Raghallaigh. Forbes initially declined to do so, but was later suspended, and eventually resigned on 26 June 2023. Members of the
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On 22 June 2023, RTÉ announced that between 2017 and 2022 it had paid €345,000 more than had been previously disclosed to the TV and radio presenter
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apologised for an "error of judgement" after he revealed himself as the RTÉ staff member who had a loan of a car from Renault for five years.
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On 17 August, it was confirmed that Tubridy would not return to his presenting role in RTÉ after negotiations with Bakhurst collapsed.
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was suspended on Wednesday 21 June 2023. However, Ní Raghallaigh failed to mention this the previous evening during her interview on
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in March 2020, which an industrial relations tribunal later that year found to be wrong. In October 2020, RTÉ Director General
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hearing that former RTÉ Chief Financial Officer Breda O'Keeffe was paid €450,000 when she left the organisation.
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Mr Varadkar noted the word 'fraud' was used during Thursday's stormy hearings of the Public Accounts Committee.
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Mooney, John; Donelly, Beau; Scott, Claire (16 July 2023). "RTE paid out €2.3m in exec exit packages".
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Ryan, Philip; O'Connell, Hugh; McTaggart, Maeve; Molony, Senan; Gataveckaite, Gabija (4 July 2023).
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reported on how RTÉ arranged for Tubridy's salary top-ups to be paid, with RTÉ alleged to have told
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On 27 June, around 200 journalists, reporters and correspondents working for RTÉ represented by
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An independent legal review in 2018 found that a number of workers at RTÉ were misclassified in
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On 27 June, RTÉ Acting Director General Adrian Lynch released a nine-page statement, alongside
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that Tubridy would not be on air the following morning (a Friday, his last show of the week).
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announced that RTÉ would be funded to the tune of €50 million in the following five years.
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than this. For the years 2020 to 2022, the extra payments were performed using a UK-based "
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as a comparison with the investigations into what RTÉ had been doing with public money.
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The Explainer: What does the Ryan Tubridy payment scandal mean for the future of RTÉ?
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Tubridy is referred to as "The Talent" in the Grant Thornton report released by the
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Ryan, Philip; O'Connell, Hugh; Molony, Senan; Gataveckaite, Gabija (5 July 2023).
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The Tubridy pay scandal explained: What it's all about and what might happen next
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Bakhurst said a new permanent leadership team would be appointed "in due course".
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Downing, John; Gataveckaite, Gabija; Foy, Ken; Sheahan, Fionnán (30 June 2023).
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Tubridy was taken off air for "editorial reasons" in the wake of the scandal.
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O'Connell, Hugh; Horan, Niamh; Tighe, Mark; Sheehan, Maeve (2 July 2023).
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all confirmed that their most recently published salaries were correct.
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to send invoices to a British barter agency called Astus. RTÉ, reports
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Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media
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Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media
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released a statement the next day announcing that Director General
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relates to events from late June 2023 onwards when Ireland's main
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may return "in some form" and be better suited to staging before
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middle of it and there is no other way to twist and turn that".
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The secret payments to Tubridy were effectively routed through
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told employees that the broadcaster would be looking for more
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Sheahan, Fionnan; Finn, Melanie; Molloy, Amy (27 June 2023).
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A 24-page interim report published by forensic accountants
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Gataveckaite, Gabija; McTaggart, Maeve (13 July 2023).
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Renault Ireland were the ultimate source of the funds.
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Beesley, Arthur; Horgan-Jones, Jack (25 August 2023).
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Ní Aodha, Gráinne; Sherlock, Cillian (26 June 2023).
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said she was "deeply disappointed" to learn that the
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Gataveckaite, Gabija; Downing, John (29 June 2023).
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RTÉ Director of Strategy Rory Coveney (a brother of
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Index

Rory Coveney

public service
RTÉ
Ryan Tubridy
talent agent
barter account
Director General of RTÉ
Dee Forbes
RTÉ Board
RTÉ Executive Board
Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media
Public Accounts Committee
Japan
UEFA Champions League
The Irish Times
public relations
Fianna Fáil
Martin Mackin
was briefly appointed
Seanad Éireann
false self-employment
Government of Ireland
Dee Forbes
redundancies
Richard Bruton
Public Accounts Committee
the TV licence system
Fine Gael
Simon Coveney

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