Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Forbes was due to retire anyway so her resignation was only a PR stunt.
I worked for a commercial semi state too and I can't fathom the lack of controls at RTE.
He'll be commentating at the weekend RTE says.
I can't see that happening.
Nah, it's a perk afforded to very few and revenue take a different view.
The ones at the bottom of the chain
Any of the so called talent are currently screwing every penny out of tax payers with RTE seemingly helping them when possible. The code of conduct for staff seems to be totally ignored and its like a team of pigs at the trough
In fairness, he does have to lead the apocalypse over the horizon when the day comes, big responsibility.
I always imagined he'd be on a woolly mammoth for the occasion, but now I know he'll be in a Nissan Leaf. Doom drives electric.
True enough but there has to be a line. And if someone is dishonest with 'little' things they'll generally be dishonest with bigger things.
There should be a demarcation, you're salary is such and such, you're entitled to a car and so much expenses. You can accept gifts up to €200.
A free car for 5\6 years is a fair perk for any ordinary worker. It's worth maybe €20,000. Marty is another legend in his own head, not on the Tubridy scale but still a self important little fella. Loves the media. Someone like Dara Moloney just gets on with the job. It's the RTE staffers with a little cult of personality around them, they are easy enough to spot. Think Eilish Dillon from Met Eireann, does her job, no fuss. Joanna Donnelly screams look at me, selling her fertility clinic, her children's weather book, Purple Rain when Prince died etc. Very easy to identify the proud ones.
I am fully aware of that, I was including it for when the RTÉ/NKM/Tubs crew came on to correct me.
Apart from possible tax implications if Renault want to give him a car I don't see the big issue either.
Mr Bakhurst said he knew about the existence of a barter account at RTÉ while he was deputy director general at the station. He might see this as honesty. But this proves my earlier point, he's one of them. He's their hire.
I must apologise to Tubridy and his fans for suggesting he got the free car for 5 years....
I have no idea how I could have thought such a thing...
Is Marty paying for his tans?
Standardly for a garage car etc they take it back each year and sell it on before the depreciation is too high. I very much doubt he got a car 5-6 years ago and is driving the same one. I expect the car was swapped every year so they could sell on, especially when you consider the high mileage he would do
Also the maintenance costs would be huge if it wasn't been swapped every year and we couldn't have old Marty having to pay those pesky service costs and pay for parts/etc
I don't think BIK works because he isn't an employee.
I'd say it's free use of property and falls under gifts rather than BIK.
https://www.revenue.ie/en/gains-gifts-and-inheritance/valuation-date-value-certain-benefits/free-use-property-interest-free-loans.aspx
This would be a show car, well that's the normal process because the presenter wouldn't want to put mileage etc on their own car.
What is wrong with that fella. He sits back in his seat with a nod and a smirk and looks around as if he has just won the whole thing with his impressive answer.
I think the bowled Mart is an employee.
I’m guessing you don’t work for the ESB then.
Work vehicles attract tax liabilities in two ways ordinarily.
Company car - vehicle provided as part of job role, this attract Benefit in Kind at varying rates dependant on the cars CO2 bracket and also it's Original list price, so even though you might be in a four year old car, you're still paying BIK based on its brand new valuation. Bad news for someone driving something that depreciates downs a cliff, like a Renault.
Some employers will also calculate additional deductions for personal mileage.
Car Allowance - employee provides their own car, it's subject to PAYE at the same rate as the worker ordinarily pays (definately 40% if you're in RTE would be my guess), and would then claim mileage at an agreed rate for journeys made as part of business only.
Then why do all media reports confirm him as "the staff member" or "the employee" who returned the car?
Why did Lynch say it was a staff member who had the car?
My understanding is this should be counted as a BIK because he wasn't gifted the car. He had to give it back after all.
You could say he should have been paying a monthly fee to Renault for the use of the car which they waved but he got a car for business which is BIK. Im no accountant but that would be my understanding. The mileage would reduce the BIK of course but he would still need to pay it and for the last 6 years.
Plus pay back the 25k car allowance which he should have been using to pay renault for the use of the car.
Have we got the the outrage about them not cleaning up after themselves in the canteen yet?
I'll be very disappointed in the NUJ and the other trade unions in RTE if that's allowed to happen.
Morrissey IS an employee of RTE. He is NOT a contractor. So it does apply.
yeah i thought that...i work near the bottom of the chain in my place too and very little if anything makes i down here,got a couple of biros once! boils my pish though that all these on 100,000++++ per year,allowances out the wazzoo,free shite from all directions and its us at or very near the bottom paying for it all AND doing all the work...
Indeed he is.
I don't know. But some of the language used "letting off" - "off the hook" - is a bit strident and is it kind of appropriate when it's not clear to me if what he did was even unethical.
I can understand, for instance, the conflict that arises from someone like George Lee driving a particular brand of car, given that there's a huge overlap in his area of correspondence. But Marty? The GAA? Renault? - that feels much more tenuous
If you want it to be a case of RTE employees not accepting anything from anybody, then fair enough, let that be the case then - but there weren't any definitive guidelines, to the best of my knowledge, on this.
I'm not dismissing some of the things that other posters have already replied with - some valid points there, but I don't regard this as something akin to the Tubridy situation.
Bosco patented the Magic Door technology and sold it to NASA years ago, hes minted.
You need to imply we're all angry middle-aged men before we can take you seriously.
Ignore the trowel as Mattie McGrath would say.
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