RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Agreed. Out of order. Joe is not a socialist!

Did he take a pay cut? To me, a pay cut is a cut to ones basic salary, ie my contract states that I will be paid €50k but due to cut backs, I now earn €45k, thats a pay cut. If he took a cut to his basic salary, then he wasnt lying. A lie of omission perhaps, a bit morally / ethically questionable perhaps, but are bonuses, sweeteners etc illegal?

The transactions at issue were created specifically in order for RTE to report the appearance of a salary cut without him actually incurring one.

How likely do you think it is that these transactions were conducted without his knowledge of their substance and how they would enable that outcome?

If you think it's unlikely, then the issue isn't 'not correcting' these false reports, it's assisting in their creation.

He did take a pay cut for his tv and radio gigs. The issue here is his accepting taxpayers money for work/deal made to carry out appearances, that were pulled after 1 year. He still took large taxpayers sums when the deal/work was pulled.

It's not Tubs fault the deal was pulled and if his contract guaranteed him that money, I see no problem with him taking it. The real question is why did RTE guarantee that money.

I know that statement won't make me popular here but that's how I see it.

I don't think that is the real question, because there's still the question of the hiding \ obfuscation of the payments.

But as a question it does lead to considerations:

Maybe Tubridy demanded it. Maybe he said what if sponsor pulls out. So he would well know that the money in the later years was coming directly from RTE.

And if that comes to light, that's not going to look good for him.

How do you come to this conclusion ?

RTE summer bbq has been cancelled.

Well, it's the one area I wouldn't defend, as I think that this area is the real bugbear for people

Gimme it, it's mine!!!!!!

As a contractor his contract can be terminated fairly quickly without needing to pay off the rest of his contract?

I'm guessing its not that staright forward and he made sure the contact is water-tight.

Claire Byrne's statement says she took a €70k reduction for the TV show, so her Radio show is more expensive than a TV, I assume from that TV only hosts are earning €70k such as Anne Cassin are only on around €70k, but radio hosts such as Jenny Green are getting 100k?

Then we discover she got €25k for Ireland's Smartest and it was not part of her RTÉ contract. A weekend of work BTW.

Total 305,000 for 2023, it will be interesting to see if RTÉ put it down as 270k in 2025!

And this goes back to my point on people who present shows for Indo Producers, does Jenny Z have a separate contract for DWTS with Shinawhil and another with RTÉ for 2FM, thus putting her out of the top 10 when potential she is in the top ten?

If the above figures are correct Jenny Z should be getting at €40k for DWTS and €100k for 2FM.

If all the top talent apart from tubridy can prove they werent getting top ups where the hell was the 50 million the whistleblower was talking about going to? Id imagine the board and heads of departments arent feeling too good about their jobs right now.

Correct...the public sector as a whole are absolutely rabid for expenses. Subsistence (while staying at home/with relatives) and mileage (absolutely exorbitant rates) are pounced upon like lives depended on it when available. Bertie let this monster out of the bag with benchmarking and it's rampaging ever since.