Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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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.
Excellent post
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.
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.
"expert" staff unable to spot a corpse in one of their own properties. Paying for quality there 🙄
Are a lot of them not volunteers?
Well more fool them if they are.
Why would you volunteer when hundreds of others are getting a wage paid to them.
I dont know, in just going off their published accounts. Feel free to do your own digging
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 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.
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."
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.
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
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.
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
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.
RTE could be in there undercover !!!!!!!!
This morning 8.44am..Here we go again..
Look at the HSE. Current audit uncovered that the Mid West healthcare staff got overpaid €1.3m by HSE.
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.
I don't watch it. You think all the business people in all those towns are 100% straight
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/
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.
Pr bs is all it is in my opinion
A smaller, leaner, more focused RTE would make a lot of sense.
Ireland needs a strong and independent PSB, but that does not mean the expensive, bloated and totally directionless mid-20th century circus we have at the moment.
Money needs to be getting to a wide array of programme makers and the measure of success should be quality of output.
A lot of arts organisations where the top people have big salaries from local authorities funding look for volunteers too. You'd want to be some eejit to volunteer to make them rich. Some cannot see past the pr smile they get or their photo in local paper.
Review will examine agent fees and a forensic accountant to be in place in August.
In most sectors you have to pay good money to get good people. Now paying good money doesn't mean you'll always get good staff but capping the salaries for most senior management at a low rate will rule out an awful lot of skilled people who are good at their job. Go trawl most of the top Companies in Ireland and you'll find not many CFO's are on €100k a year. The average is €183k and ranges from about €130k to €275k. Some sites have the top range about €300k.
By the way, it might surprise you that the top people in the Civil Service can earn €250k or more. The article below is a year old so maybe now they are on even more money by now.
Secondly, you say agents aren't needed. Many people in the showbiz/entertainment/sporting world would disagree.
I think you might be misunderstanding what agents do? Agents don't really advise their clients regarding questions that they ask the people they interview. They are there to find work for and to negotiate the best deal for their clients. If I was in the showbiz game, I'd hire an agent.
How do agents advertise products? They don't. They get their clients (famous people) to do it, i.e. they find work for their clients.
Re the arts festivals etc looking for volunteers -
I’ve seen with my own eyes these “arts administrators” on big money treating the volunteers like absolute slaves - roaring and shouting at often young idealistic ppl giving them dogs abuse
The media are obsessed with chatgpt because they see it as direct competition for their jobs. They talk about it endlessly. Robotics has been around for a long time but it still hasn't made big inroads into manufacturing due to the difficulty and expense in getting robots to successfully replace humans. Only for repetitive ,predicable high end manufacturing have robots replaced humans.
Yet with chatgpt media output can easily be replicated by technology and this is scary
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