Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Ivan Yates on Newstalk lamenting Dee Forbes and Moya Doherty as the worst tenure in the history of RTE.
All Dee Forbes did for 7 years was ask for an increase in the licence fee and make secret deals with Ryan Tubridy.
I think Dee had no other choice.
she was already suspended by the board.
if she went to the PAC - she could no longer speak on behalf of the board.
*Shyster alert*
*Buzzword 'equity' alert.*
*Buzzword 'wellbeing' alert*
This from a high-flying executive, I mean what are high-flying executives like these days.
How dare she be pulled up about a dodgy practice she was deeply involved in as Director General of a public service organisation - the cheek of the unfairness, disrespectfulness and inequity!
"In her statement this morning, Ms Forbes said that she feels the RTÉ Board has not treated her with "anything approaching the levels of fairness, equity and respect that anyone should expect as an employee, a colleague or a person".
"All of this has had a very serious and ongoing impact on my health and wellbeing," she said."
Don’t feed him… he’s trolling
Tubridy might, in some moral sense, be responsible to his public, however I don't think RTE (and I think this was your earlier point) hold him accountable since they themselves were a willing party to this arrangement.
You don't resign unless you've done something wrong. She can p*ss off with the whining about how she has been treated by RTE. Another tone deaf self entitled twat who was over paid and under performed to disastrous levels. If she has to have her resignation rejected to face the music by those to whom she answers it should be rejected.
If her pension cannot be stopped then I hope she is shunned by the public. She had brass neck crying about the license fee while signing off on extra payments for a presenter we were told had taken a pay cut. For the record until Tubridy hands back the 345k he too should be publicly shunned too. If the authorities won't make these cretins accountable for their actions may they suffer public aprobrium.
He can’t go back on air due to impartiality, ie he would have to ignore the big news story
”At least with a DD you can forget about it once it’s set up”……that is the one thing you cannot do if you are on low income……….you think about all the DD’s coming out every single week and what you have (if any) coming in, you worry about if any of your payments will bounce, which ones, and what will be the consequences.
I have been that soldier, I have experienced that worry. And more than once or twice.
The point I am making, is that the majority of people who have signed up to a TVLicence DD did it because it was handy rather than poverty. Nobody in poverty signs up to another DD unless they really really have no choice, as they now lose control of when the money leaves the account.
How people pay their TV licence doesn’t bother me at all. But if you signed a DD mandate, you don’t have as much control as you may think, and looking at the T&C’s in the link provided by another poster……if you cancel, you are required to pay for it in full immediately.
If you protest and cancel the DD……and say in two years you wish to reinstate the DD…..all the arrears come out in the first payment. Just read their T&C’s, in my honest opinion cancelling a DD for 13.33 per month really isn’t worth the hassle.
I don’t work for RTE or An Post and I resent paying for a licence for a service I don’t use.
Don’t mention the thing
bit disappointed with Callan
Calm yourself. This is the second report Martin will need on the matter. Morning Ireland questioned why it would take so long and the TD being interviewed said it might be sooner.
Minister made aware in March about RTÉ irregularities, but didn't know it involved Ryan Tubridy (thejournal.ie)
MEDIA MINISTER CATHERINE MARTIN has said she became aware in March that there was an issue in RTÉ’s accounts.
Speaking to reporters today, she said she was told in March that an issue had arisen in their “routine annual audit” and that a “fact-finding review” was being established to get to the bottom of it.
“That is all I knew in March. And I awaited then for the report,” she said.
7 months is oddly specific is it not?
This part of Dee Forbes' resignation statement imo puts Tubridy in a dangerous spot:
"As Director General, I led the discussions with the agent for Ryan Tubridy together with other RTÉ senior executives. We were keen to make a cost saving for RTÉ in respect of a contractual payment which was due to be paid. At the same time, we were attempting to retain Ryan Tubridy’s services as a valued presenter and negotiate a new contract, with the agreed 15% cost cutting target in mind. In an effort to find a solution to the budgetary challenges, we explored if a long serving commercial partner might take on a commercial relationship directly with Ryan Tubridy."
It indicates that rather than just accepting the 15% pay cut (which all RTE talent was supposed to be getting), there was instead a risk during contract negotiation of Tubridy leaving which caused RTE to have to seek other measures to ensure they can technically cut his salary by 15%, but find another way to get him more money.
Crafty move by Ms Forbes.
This is a move to make sure she never appears in front of anyone to answer any questions.
She will just melt off into the distance now, leaving a war zone behind her.
I'm a bit confused is the discussion about his contracts with RTE and RTE contracts with him slopy management or is it a rant about whether he has any talent (a debatable point as opinions difference) combined with a rant about his personality. Honourable mention to the rants about RTE/Irish media in general and it's left wing bias (in the posters opinion anyway) Maybe it should be divided in two threads.
What? Do you think the report will only take a few weeks? And who do you think is kicking the can - Catherine Martin (who has nothing to gain by doing so)? Jebus, would some people not think before they post daft nonsense!
Noel Curran was pretty bad, and if some of these relate to his time at the broadcaster he might be under pressure to leave the EBU.
I suppose we should say First Woman, First Suspection from the role and first resignation from the role! lots of firsts. I suppose that misogynistic of me.
Can't see Kevin Bakhurst leading this organisation for long.
We're still not clear on why fake numbers were reported for 5 years.
@irishgeo You have a lot more faith in the public than I do. If anything, morbid curiosity combined with deluded brand loyalty would ensure Tubs a bonanza of listeners should he return.
From there he could turn up the heat and play the victim card to the max. A snivelling on air apology talking about all the trauma he and his kids suffered since last week? He'd be good to go.
When incorrect salary figures were reported, RT should have attempted to correct the record. By not doing so, he is letting RTE lie on his behalf. It's very bad form.
The worst Director General in the history of RTE.
@irishgeo "RT probably hasn't done anything wrong on the contract side but has lied to the public and his "paycuts"."
Engineering an under the counter payment when all other employees are taking a paycut.? And pretending nothing happened?
We have different ideas ideas of 'doing something wrong'.
Nah
They don't just do the presenting bit with no back ground work. They will be engaged in rehearsals, meeting with researchers, meeting with producers, having team meetings to come up with ideas, having discussions to look at what angle to take etc etc.
They will though as she can the. Be blamed for most of this.
I don’t think any side (RTÉ or Minster/Dept) is in any doubt that the resignation is mostly to allow her avoid turn up this week at PAC and it comes with no financial penalty at all.
She gets to keep her pension I bet.
Is she resigning as director at GAAGO?
She negotiated the deal it seems with the sponsor and RT agent and that RTE would gaurentee the deal and is then surprised when the sponsor pulled out. I don't think I would want some with that level of negotiations skills working in any company when you could see what might happen.
No mention of why it wasn't included in RT earnings from RTE.
They all seem the think RT is an irreplaceable presenter.
RT probably hasn't done anything wrong on the contract side but has lied to the public and his "paycuts".
If RTE are struggling to find a way to get rid due to contract clauses. They should just put him back on air and watch his listenership numbers drop like a stone and use that to get rid of him.
The board should not accept her resignation
They can have my TV license fee in 7 months then.
How could they possibly know how long a report would take, I agree with you fully. It’s like they decided that would be sufficient.
sure how would they even have estimates back from the people doing the reports since the story only really broke on the weekend.
Tubridy will be due another statement this week...
His time is up.....
Morning Ireland saying that the Catherine Martin report will take 7 months. That's next year. Typical kick the can down the road and hope people forget or release the report when something else is making headlines.
I wonder will Dee Forbes turn up to the PAC.
So many people had their incomes decimated during covid. Ryan went demanding the 75k for each of the two covid years. Such empathy.
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