Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

Plutarch

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866036#Comment_121866036

No. They can not and nor should they.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866067#Comment_121866067

She doesn't have a neck like a jockeys bollix though. If she did she would answer the questions and not give a flying shite.

She is cowardly and nothing more. Charlie Haughey, Bertie, Denis O'Brien, Tubridy, O'leary. Lads like that have a thick neck and are pure chancers. Forbes ain't in that league. She was found out here. Incompetence is probably the least of her problems. I wonder what her legal team are telling her. There is a reason why she is hiding.

The one thing I'd say for Doherty, Coveney, Tubridy and Collins is at least they appeared and answered questions. A couple of times in some cases. This one has cried mental health or something similar and hidden behind it. Typical Ireland.

Stick the license fee up yer bollix.

Viscount Aggro

I saw her at the weekend, down at the Glandore Inn. She looked fine to me ... was eating crab claws.

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866164#Comment_121866164

Not easiest thing to eat either.

NSAman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866164#Comment_121866164

Now stop that!

They were not crab claws, they were medically prescribed gastric enticers ordered by her specialist in the care of her absolutely totally debilitating osteoporosis which has eaten away all bone in a specific location and left her spineless.

downtheroad

How often was this woman out publicly clamouring for extra funding and complaining about licence fee evasion, now the 5h!t has hit the fan there isn't sight nor sound of her.

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121864644#Comment_121864644

Could receive it! Could is the word, there were only 20,000 TV sets in Ireland by 1959 so even if you say 4 per family that is only 80,000 people or only 2.5% of the population. Most I daresay in Dublin.

Only with the arival of RTE would the population be influenced by TV. It may not have been intended as a liberal force but it did become one for a time..

DeanAustin

This boils my piss. You get a job like this, it comes with accountability as well as a pay cheque. And that accountability doesn't stop the day you leave. Yet every trick in the book gets pulled out to avoid being accountable for the job she did.

An absolute coward and a charlatan. Sadly reflective of a lot of people in powerful positions.

yagan

The comparisons with the RCC just get stronger, she wants the privileges and absolution of the confessional.

dabbler2004

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121865512#Comment_121865512

Was about to post exactly this. I think it it's a two fingered salute to PAC and the taxpayers. It's not even disguised as anything else.

At the very least the letter should have stated that Dee Forbes would be very willing to engage with the committee in the future once she's "better".

But why would she bother in even that pretence when she knows she can't be touched.

tom23

A spoofer. I hope to god this woman never works in this country again in anything to do with taxpayers money. spoofer all the way. sickens me that she can get away with this. sickening.

bigroad

She is responsible for wasting millions of euro.of licence payer fees.

Can someone not sue the ass of her.

Id like to see how smart she would be if she had to hand over a few hundred grand to her legal team.

DrZeuss

I'd be fine with the government paying for a private detective to follow her around, and the moment she lifts a finger in relation to a paid job or even tries to put together an Ikea desk she should be dragged in for a chat. If she can't answer a few simple questions, surely she must be so bad that she can't possibly work again.

fplfan12345

I hope she is not getting an easy time when seen out and about.

I hope the public are giving her plenty and continue to do so til she answers some questions.

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121867400#Comment_121867400

DF is circa 48 YO. Probably has a working life of 20 years + in her and longer is she wishes. So, what happens when she goes back to work, say as a secretary with some company=/ a doctors surgery or whatever. Would this then be deemed that she should be capable of ‘answering a few questions?

OR will her doctor ‘claim’ that the work she is doing does not need ‘ any thinking, ability to recall, etc, etc capacity. In other words she is still not capable of assisting PAC with it’s enquiries

So DF,, her doctor, solicitors and advisors , will be in a bit of a pickle if she ever wants to take up employment/go back to work

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121867758#Comment_121867758

48? More nearer 60

Gen.Zhukov

What if Forbsey had been required to answer questions from the fraud section of AGS (which she should have been imo)

Could she just claim 'I feel a bit poorly so I can't come in'

We all know this illness is a crock of ***t because if it were a real illness she'd have no problem telling people what it was (to garner a bit of sympathy) - Also, how the hell has she not been spotted out n about in 9 months? She's one of the most despised people in Ireland (up there with John Delaney) and would be snapped wherever she went

RunningFlyer

not sure if this has been asked/addressed yet, but with so much dodgy dealings happening in RTE can a criminal fraud case be established? Or, despite how outrageously some of the revelations have been, have no laws actually been broken?

I still can’t comprehend what the implications would be had this all been in a private company.

Gen.Zhukov

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121867906#Comment_121867906

AGS said they would only investigate if asked to by RTE - It's like waiting for a phone call from Pablo Escobar asking them to check out his warehouses

DrZeuss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121867758#Comment_121867758

Well considering she can chat with her solicitor I would say yes. Her big sickness is a bad case of being caught out.

Scipri0

This tells you all you need to know. If you're not sure in your convictions then you'll scurry, but if you are/were then you'd at least stand and fight your case. Tell me your lying. This being government funded and just an outright refusal to us, her bosses screams disrespect and i'd say the same for the people and media that enabled her.

rdhma

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866036#Comment_121866036

Well she did have a persistent cough, when it came to the licence fee.

Seems to have lost her voice entirely now.

kazamo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121868029#Comment_121868029

Why do they need to be asked ?

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121866143#Comment_121866143

I don't see how she can lead any sort of normal life. Anyone who knows her outside immediate family must despise her. That'd do anyone's head in, she'd be far better advised to face the music and at the very least apologise publicly for her poor performance. Maybe she'll move abroad and hide away.

Gusser09

She lives in Glandore so its possible the media scrutiny isnt as intense down there.

Can a member of the public not make a complaint to AGS and force an investigation?

We need more people to refuse to pay for the license. Money talks.

Dee is 55? Id say she isnt too concerned. Another 12 months and memories will start to fade.

fliball123

I think people need to stop paying the license fee and anyone who sees Dee out and about should take a video of her and put it online asking how sick are you? She needs to feel the full weight of the publics anger and forced to stay in her house as if she is well enough to travel outside she is well enough to answer a few questions from her bed via video link she would not even have to travel and any government party putting in a license fee replacement tax in should have the same pressure applied as the water charges - The water charges have showed that if the publics will is strong enough you can stop the gouging from the government... RTE and gov are 2 sets of piggies sitting at the same table having a faux argument there is dirt over on the politicians side and Miss Forbes I reckon will know where some of the bodies are buried which is why she has not been chased in any meaningful way. So don't pay and any license fee substitute that would be put in to RTE should have people on the on the street protesting if the Irish public do this in a high % then RTE will go the way of the dodo and wouldn't it be funny seeing them trying to compete with the private offerings.

yagan

If there's no consequences for hiding payments within rte then there should be no consequences for not paying a license fee.

ForestFire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121869334#Comment_121869334

Is it not illegal to supply money to a person or organisation that you believe to be involved in illegal or criminal activity?

Serious question by the way. If you were helping someone launder money, even if you made no gain, you would still be convicted?

Gen.Zhukov

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121869119#Comment_121869119

Dunno - It stinks though.

I'd guess there's plenty to discover but they'd prefer not look under the rock, because what's under the rock would be the end of RTE as it stands and the govt doesn't want that

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/gardai-launch-criminal-probe-rte-27228019

deirdremf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121822724#Comment_121822724

Martin may be out of her depth and somebody with business expertise may be required, but it is not a TD's job to be a business person, any more than it is their job to be a school teacher, a publican or a lawyer. So unless you want the country to change from being a democracy to being an autocracy or perhaps an oligarchy, please accept that people from a variety of walks of life will become TDs and therefore also will become ministers. Some of these people will have an ideological agenda (as our Green TDs), others will just be cute hoors (as so many in FF, FG & Labour).

RTÉ has been out of control for decades, there is nothing recent about it. So many refer to it as Pravda because it has been a government mouthpiece uncritically spreading government (FFFGLab) propaganda for so long. None of this is the current minister's doing, and I agree that she may well be out of her depth here, but the story is not about Martin vs Ní Raghallaigh - it's about how dysfunctional RTÉ actually is. Martin may not be the best person to clean it up, but in fairness . like the HSE - it's a poisoned chalice which has festered for so long. It needs to be radically changed, broken up and re-cast.

And not only re-cast - but we've seen time and again in recent years that hoghups in the public service have a cavalier manner of working, including having dodgy meetings with people on official time and neither taking notes nor producing minutes. And no agenda either. Is such a meeting with Ní Raghallaigh not at the centre of this debacle?