Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Don't watch it! But sure, it's not the remit of the programme to uncover that? It's not a journalistic programme. They can't be all investigate programmes. That's not how a station works. There must also be programming that promotes a feel good factor about localities alongside the other types of programming.
Usually because the volunteer is trying to do some good while the people above them are just trying to fill their pockets.
You can do it yourself
https://pmvtrust.ie/get-involved/volunteer/
I don't watch it. You think all the business people in all those towns are 100% straight
Minister Martin said that she expects to receive the final report from six months of commencement of the review, with interim reports as required. She said that the first review into RTÉ will be on governance, headed up by Prof Niamh Brennan and Dr Margaret Cullen, a third person will be appointed in the coming days.
Look at the HSE. Current audit uncovered that the Mid West healthcare staff got overpaid €1.3m by HSE.
This morning 8.44am..Here we go again..
RTE could be in there undercover !!!!!!!!
It's supposed to put towns/villages and local people/enterprises in their best light, what do you expect? A warts and all documentary? It's the nature of the programme.
Yes they were always inside the tent pissing out unfortunately for them the wind has blown the piss back into the tent, ,those Dail committees last week generated alot of wind
Not to be derailing a thread here but the Peter Mcverry trust shouldnt exist for the reasons outlined below, but that said The people working there are entitled to pay because the roles are full time.
The Trust should not exist because there should not be a demand for its services outside of what the government provides, however It is doing the work that government agencies and local councila should be doing and providing services that the HSE should be providing but is not. Its essentially an outsourcing agency operating with council and government funding and public fundraising.
I dont know of any financial impropriety in the organization nor do i know that there isnt any but innocent until proved guilty.
The fact that it exists and is so big shows how incompetent our government are.
Goodwill as a physical amount is utter fakery, IMO. Look at the FAI Annual accounts in the run up to the Delaney debacle..it increased year on year to paper over huge holes in the balance sheet IIRC.
We all know what happened there
Ex-RTE DG Noel Curran said he will attend a future meeting, but is unavailable at present and hasn't offered a date. He didn’t land the top job at European Broadcasting Union for nothing. Eel.
Taken from Irish independent today about brand ads being a lucrative sideline for presenters,
"Rates charged by RTÉ presenters for sponsored social media posts are not publicly available, but it is understood that a star with more than 300,000 followers could stand to earn between €3,000 and €4,500 from a post.
As well as being paid for the promotional content itself, RTÉ stars can also be given products and services including cars, holidays, food and drink, clothing or beauty products under the deals."
"Since June 2021, Garrihy has shared more than 30 posts marked as a paid partnership or with the hashtags #gift, #ad or #sp (sponsored) with her 312,000 followers. Other posts included paid partnerships with Horse Racing Ireland at Cheltenham and Leopardstown races."
"Dancing with the Stars winner Mullan has been sponsored by brands such as Coca-Cola, Lidl, TK Maxx and Lloyd's Pharmacy. In two years, he has shared more than 50 sponsored posts to his 317,000 followers, creating content ranging from giveaways to short comedy skits."
I agree that majority publicaly funded organisations should have transparancy regarding their pay and structure. That is not the same as saying that a politician on TV should be able to ask an employee about a private contract and the person should be compelled to give an answer. I have attended several sittings of PAC and most questions are fishing for headlines, not information. The mans salary had no relevance to the situation unless perhaps for the fact he seems underpaid for an organisation with such a large turnover.
Ultimately the politicians went to the people looking for compellability powers and we rejected their request for the 30th amendment. They should stick to their remit and focus on the problems in governance.
ok, by that logic we know that TWO of the current board were on AT LEAST twice that money. So your argument is nonsense tbh.
It's not about the salary on offer, it's about the integrity of the person in the role.
100k for that role, advertised on publicjobs.ie would get applicants who probably WANT the role, and view the salary as acceptable. don't take my word for it - take the stats that apply to roles advertised for around 100k on Publicjobs.ie
That said, i firmly believe that Civil Service salaries should apply to ALL state bodies, commercial or otherwise, with industry standard bonus rates applying for commercial elements within such bodies linked to mesaurable performances (saying - "because i'm worth it or well you won't get the quality candidate" is not a measurable metric!)
Agents are NOT required for broadcasters on TV or Radio. Broadcasters are well able to ask questions of people they interview. let the broadcasters ask questions of their employers when it comes to negotiations.
Agents ARE useful for providing add-on services to broadcsters such as advertising products etc.
I dont know, in just going off their published accounts. Feel free to do your own digging
Well more fool them if they are.
Why would you volunteer when hundreds of others are getting a wage paid to them.
Are a lot of them not volunteers?
"expert" staff unable to spot a corpse in one of their own properties. Paying for quality there 🙄
766 staff!
There's probably multinationals here with less employees.
Isn't there 12000 registered homeless in Ireland? That would be some employee to homeless ratio, if it weren't for the fact there about 29 other homeless charities in Ireland as well.
Homelessness is keeping plenty of folk in job's.
There's a simple way around this.
Don't work for a publically funded company if not ready to answer to the public when and if the time comes.
Excellent post
This is about power. There's always a part of these types of people who want to get caught because then the real test comes, can they get away with it? And if they do, the swagger, confidence, neck, and bullishness goes through the roof. That's when you get someone like Donald Trump, when they come out the other side and have the confidence of being able to get away with anything. God complex goes through the roof. I'm different. I'm special. I make my own rules. I can find the loopholes, do what I want and get away with it.
He'll probably rebrand the company, put someone else as the owner on paper, and carry on as he was but behind the scenes.
It's the fault of people who follow that dumbed down trash like big brother etc
There is a market for that rubbish
RTE etc won’t negotiate with him, so one end of his business is dead in the water. He’s a businessman and will diversify.
There was a homeless man on a virgin programme. He was a rapper who busked on street. He said I don't beg i entertain.
He had far more charisma than RT or any rte 'talent' lol. RT is a talentless twat that got everything by nepotism
He was already on a fortune. Nothing wrong with looking for payment for doing extra Renault work - the problem is that he wanted RTE to cover the bill regardless of whether there was Renault work OR even if Renault were paying for it. The barter account shenanigans seem to have been done for RTE to pay Tubridy more and pretending it was coming from elsewhere. But RTE were paying out monies to fund the Renault work also... the agreement was cost neutral for Renault.
The reality is there was no new money from Renault.
It cost RTÉ more than €47,000 to cover the expense involved in staging three events hosted by Ryan Tubridy for Renault in 2022, according to a statement from the public service broadcaster. The events took place in Cork, Dublin and Louth between March and May 2022. The cost of staging the events was €30,586. As RTÉ paid the costs through a barter account, the total cost to RTÉ came to €47,477... RTÉ’s income from Renault’s sponsorship of the Late Late Show was reduced by the value of €75,000.
https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2023/0628/1391642-rte-covered-cost-of-staging-tubridy-hosted-renault-events/
Lottie before PAC would be something else🤣
Its not raised because its not a problem. Read their accounts for 2022 page 31
Peter mcverry himself takes no salary, expenses or allowances. Not has he ever.
The have a payroll of 30,536,511 with 766 staff so an average of under 40k. Hardly a problem?
Their senior management renumeration is on page 32 and is transparent and not any way excessive.
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