Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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That's a very important question that needs to be asked or more properly - investigated.
If RTE were putting prime advertising slots into the barter exchange rather than the dregs with the aim being to keep this black account "in the black" so it could fund endless corporate jollies then that is a big story. It may even be criminal?
Also if the RTE income for different years was reduced because advertising slots were sold at reduced rates, its no surprise that Dee Forbes was forever on about RTE losing money.
Noel Kelly's accounts should be audited asap. There is no way he only made 400k last year with the creative accounting and fees he recommends. Get Revenue in there too.
117k per year 21 - 31 presenters. RTÉ don't make much TV and don't have very many High profile presenters I am guessing
Note almost everything is either Radio or News.
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RTE once actually did have a hard left element until a cadre of FF youth wing types, including Joe Duffy and Mary McAleese, got their foot in the door and diluted their influence.
More like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned, with RT asking for another tune.
I hope you get commission for that.
Ban me? Ban me? I made Boards.ie!
I can see why these barter accounts are used for trading unsold advertising etc and paying the 35 percent for the service of matching advertisers with available slots at short notice.
I fear we will find when all this comes out that perfectly saleable advertising slots were being run through the barter company for the singular purpose of funding dodgy spending and that is a far more serious issue because that would involve paying 35 percent just to hide the transaction as well as selling advertising slots at reduced rates, all just to keep the slush fund rolling.
385k to tubridy paid via the slush fund could possibly have cost closer to 1 million if funded with needlessly cheaply sold advertising slots and 35% fee on top.
😂 Hi Noel, will you be my agent?
Tomorrow should be good. Let's try and get some semblance of truth from them but inevitably the Board need to be replaced. Unfit for duty.
I wonder did Catherine Murphy have inside sources when she asked how many barter accounts they had. She has had good sources in the past re the superquango Irish Water.
Could be a fire in the Rte records department tonight 🤔
I've no issue with the Patrick Kielty flights and hotel. He's travelling from London - seems a non-item. Are they trying to water down the other items? Or goad PAC into questioning them around it so they can buy time.
Are you saying that files may not be found or go missing?
The antics of RTE's senior management reminds me of what must have went on during the last days of the Ancien Regime in France just before the 1789 Revolution.
They partied on regardless........
I'd say they're in sensory overload on reading the latest round of revelations
Thats it though - were any returns made? If all the transactions happened in the UK barter company, wouldn't they be making returns to the UK Inland revenue?
Maybe the only thing RTE got from the barter company was a bill for their broker fees which was probably paid through the normal AP systems. If all the other transactions were to get into RTE's books, the barter company would need to pay rte for the ad slots and then invoice RTE for anything purchased. Like any normal business transaction within the monetary system, auditors wouldn't miss those records year after year and why would Collins not know about them?
Checking if he's linked to any of the barter accounts
Essentially RTE used Barter accounts to benefit themselves and their advertisers as individuals. Instead of 100k going to the organisation for sponsoring something. We'll just say 80k went to the organisation. 10k went to presenters for sidework. 10k went back to advertisers with things like tickets for matches.
It is not their money to "Barter" with. And everybody seemed to have had a great time "bartering". Apart from the general public of course.
Top 100 earners and the lowest is near €117k. 🤬
Independent has more revelations.
DF wrote to RT saying no paycuts before 2025.
RTE agreed to pay for food drink and guests at Renault event's.
PK promised 1st class flights and 4star hotel to present LLS.
It's absolute nonsense. All public and civil servants have their pay publicly known as their grade is linked to a published scale. RTE staffers should expect the same level of confidentiality, i.e. none.
They're trying to find a way to shred every trail of evidence. Buying time.
Where's @ButtersSuki?
They were choose to make reform RTÉ and make them as left bias as possible, I don't usually get bogged down in politics and I think from which ever side of the isle you come you have to say the choices are politically motivated. IMO.
Were NK and RT holding RTE to ransom over something? Why the contract business?
March 15th RT wins Guaranteed Irish person of the year
March 16th steps down from TLLS
March 17th Deloitte send mails on a public holiday about the “payments” to senior management in RTE…
21st on April contract signed... by NKM employee...
SNAKE.
You are on the money, it was a heist.
So Government, did you know that RTE was a corrupt basket case for many years?
Oh I think you know the answer to taht
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