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

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122285801#Comment_122285801

I think they said mid-july …. and then she'll take her normal summer break!

fliball123

I wonder if there could be a protest about paying the new charge alla water charges and no one pays until the people paying for this mess get answers, I can only see people paying it if Dee Forbes is rightly questioned and or prosecuted as their was definitely fraud going on with in RTE why has a case not been brought forward.

ToweringPerformance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122274173#Comment_122274173

This is just the Irish way. Wagons are circled and over time the government hope people forget or lose interest in the RTE scandal and you know what they will because we do it over and over again.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122286579#Comment_122286579

I can't see it happening tbh. I could be wrong but the protest of not paying is significant and should be significant enought. 13% less people paying, while normally 15% don't pay! surely that is a protest in of itself.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122286579#Comment_122286579

If it's deducted directly by revenue I don't think it'll be possible to boycott it

fliball123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122288248#Comment_122288248

There could be protests set up before this being rammed down our throats I find it hard to believe the Irish people will just pay for the mess that is RTE and be so hard nosed with the refusal to pay more tax for clean water or maybe I am out of touch with the bog standard Irish person

Baba Yaga

be great if there was even one journalist in the country that would dig into this and find dear dee and ask her what the actual fcuk? wont happen i know…

Kingslayer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122288384#Comment_122288384

Media in Ireland will very rarely rock the boat or try to dig up dirt. Immigration, RTE, the recent referendum all prove that.

Baba Yaga

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122288421#Comment_122288421

thats true enough…they all seem to just be interested in getting a political advisor job or be a government spokesman… all thats needed is just one,just feckin one to start digging and the whole house of cards would fall

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122288489#Comment_122288489

Also they want to host Prime Time or the Six One news.

The Jornos are not going to bite the hand that might feed them. Two examples brought this into the light.

The initial outrage regarding the axing of Children's programming, and their acceptance that the funding of children's programming was just being move to the independent sector but never to follow up to see if RTÉ had supported children's content, or that they cut content by 25% and then by a further 50% in 2016 and 2017.

There have been plenty of times between this and the second example also: -

But for me last Christmas's Buckhurst Black out, they were happy to take interview after interview with him and give him the thumbs up and to lob softballs at him. Then when something did come up after Christmas he was unwilling to take an interview!

jmcc

Look back in anger?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0622/1456085-rte-analysis/

And still nobody has been made to answer.

Regards…jmcc

padd b1975

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122286403#Comment_122286403

I see.

It's not as if there's a shortage of people to stand in in the meantime so it's all good they would probably claim.

Karppi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122288384#Comment_122288384

This reminded me that, in the recent stages of the sh1tstorm of the Post Office Horizon scandal, a tv crew tracked down Paula Vennells. It wasn’t very illuminating but at least some people felt better that she’d been doorstepped. (at the church gate, actually!) But there’s no sign of that happening to Dee

https://youtu.be/K74ts7C2H0A?si=GMueYUkZzGxqQBsI

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122290451#Comment_122290451

So one year on from the lighting of the match that ignited an inferno at the national broadcaster, the fire is now out and the rebuilding is well under way.

Really ?

The only thing that is assured, is that events of 22 June 2023 have changed the organisation forever.

Yeah!

jmcc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122291265#Comment_122291265

They've learned nothing.

Regards…jmcc

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122290451#Comment_122290451

It's a shameful disgrace to RTE, the government, the licence paying public, sponsors and advertisers that Forbes has not made herself available to answer questions. Disgraceful brass necked conduct.

Oxo Moran

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122291462#Comment_122291462

Do they want to learn? I would guess they regret being caught.

Their equivalent of cleaning house was/is resignations and large pay offs.

There's no accountability for certain people in certain positions and RTE is one such place.

Viscount Aggro

They will prosecute a bunch more few people.. publicise it. That's how they will improve compliance.

Nobody will be able to avoid the charge, unless u are off grid.

skimpydoo

With RTE owing around €200M due to bogus self employment. Why should they be bailed out by the government? They will always need more money. Until RTE faces up to and deals with bogus employment, things will never change.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122292892#Comment_122292892

Yet they let the real crooks off with racking up huge debts, often in very suspicious ways, and then walking away scot free with big severance packages.

The little person always pays, those at the top rarely are caught and prosecuted.

Madeoface

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122286579#Comment_122286579

Thing was with the water charges that everyone was gonna pay based on use. There was no freebie for the non working and pensioners like there is for them on the TV licence. Hence the large turnout.

If the government is going to use revenue as a debt collector that's ridiculous. Next they'll have them chasing rates and hospital charges. Slippery slope

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122294036#Comment_122294036

Everyone should just start refusing to pay the TV licence now.

A complete unpayment from the public would clog up any court, who would all have to decide that they were not will to take these cases.

And if you do end up in court

"M'Lord / M'Lady some people in this country get suspended sentences for much more, perhaps you might want to provide better justice."

fliball123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122296873#Comment_122296873

The only way people will pay without protest is Dee Forbes prosecuted RTE put on a bomb fire and let hit the wall no entity there should have a knock on effect for pensions for those who have cut and run and let Dee and the rest pursue the Irish tax payers for their pensions in the court room I bet she wont be too sick then to be seen in public and a new body set up free from the past with accounts and all other details free to see for the people (tax payer) paying for it. There should be someone out door stepping Miss Forbes for the rest of her life she deserves no peace what so ever in retirement.

Gen.Zhukov

On Forbesy - You'd really need to ba a very, very special sort of a ***t to -

• Know that you were incapable of doing the job
• Put yourself forward for, and blag your way into said job
• Be appointed to the position and prove to yourself that you were indeed sh!t at the job (as you knew would be the case when you applied)
• Waste vast quantities of public monies, whilst allowing appallingly bad quality staff/management/presenters stay in their respective positions
• Allow (with seemingly no control) one external party to dictate who presents what show and how much their fees will be, and in fact, allow that external party increase their control over the organisation you presided over in your tenure
• Refuse to appear in front of Govt committees when asked
• Decide that when your 5 year tenure ends (when the whole country knows you're sh!t) you'll avail of the (dumb-assed) ability to extend your tenure for another 2 years…just to milk it that little bit more
• When the sh!t eventually hits the fan, feign illness and run off and hide like a missive wimp

Yep, that's one really, really special ***t alright

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300200#Comment_122300200

Thats exactly what happened Gineral.

And nothing seems to have changed……

Furze99

Five year plan coming up today. No harm in being optimistic I guess.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302319#Comment_122302319

Well a little. If it starts with funding issues, all hope will be lost, if it mentions funding, all hope will be lost.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122300200#Comment_122300200

She got her extra 2 years as DG.

She was there intially from 2016 until 2021, and it was renew for 2 years until 2023.

Minister Martin has been in situ since 2020, and would have appointed her to the role for the extra 2 years.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302319#Comment_122302319

They are planning to sell more the site, this makes no sense really. It's a one of payment that will result in waste.

https://www.independent.ie/business/media/rte-promises-to-sell-more-of-its-montrose-site/a1201640093.html

RTE has again promised to reduce its headcount by up to 400, and says funding this “targeted, voluntary exit programme” for staff is likely to cost about €50m. On the other hand it promised that over the period 2025-2029, it will invest in excess of €340m with the independent production sector

85m on average every year. (retuning to just about 2008 levels)

12.5m to remove 400 staff, cost of 125,000 each!

How exactly all this will be funded is not made entirely clear,

A plan with no plan!

Gen.Zhukov

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122302640#Comment_122302640

From wiki -

"The director general both reports to the board and sits on it "in an ex officio capacity".[4] At this time, the director general serves a term of five years (reduced from seven years), at the expiry of which he/she may ask for an extension.[5]"

She asked for a two year extension and it was granted - There's a pair of them in it

I couldn't be arsed with the pedantry Ro - Forbes is one of the greatest confidence tricksters Ireland has known and should be in the Dóchas Centre