RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Most companies have clear guidelines in place as to what is and isn't acceptable. At the very minimum most full time contracts require you not to work for anyone else without clearing it first with management. Most workplaces have clear guidelines in place as to what level or entertainment or gifts can be accepted without prior approval. These are basic level requirements that ensure that your employee is working for you and is not conflicted by a relationship with a third party.

You would expect RTE to have these guidelines in place and if they do they should be reminding staff about them regularly and that they need to be complied with. The use of a car for six years is a significant monetary benefit that should definitely require prior approval (and frankly is at a level where you would expect that approval would be refused).

Timmy Dooley is being very disingenuous in choosing which issue is good and which issue is bad. To me it comes back to whether RTE's Corporate Governance and financial controls are fit for purpose. It's these lack of controls that have RTE not sure who has a car and which allow a barter account by used to conceal payments to contractor.

Remind me never to cross you!!

Exactly like your posts on this topic and on the radio forum.

You add nothing but your outrage.

Right on dude

Galway freesheet yesterday 😐️

Hmmm…… seems to be a lot of chaff going around on MSM to kind of trivialise this ‘loan of a car’ stuff.

As I see it as an employee of a State Broadcaster who has a public profile, to accept use of cars from a company is putting yourself in hock to them whether or not you ever even mention them on air or in other circles.

As I said previously the car companies are not idiots, they know that, and employees of RTE should know that as a Public Service broadcaster, they should steer clear of these kind of offers for obvious reasons.

It is fraught with problems that casts a shadow on impartiality in RTE which is paramount in what the taxpayer expects from the State broadcaster.

It cheapens the credibility of the person accepting it , no matter what role, and raises the question of how endemic the practise is throughout the company.

Lets not try to trivialise it as seems to be happening on MSM.

Its galling to turn on the TV and see the likes of Ryan Tubridy & Marty Morrissey telling the rest of us how to live and put up with things and they & others in RTE riding the state bareback - no wonder Marty is always going round with a big cheesy grin!

I hope we dont have to look at this greedy creep at the Hurling semi finals over the weekend!

Yes Timmy Dooley from Clare didnt realise he was going to expose his fellow Clare man so hes trying to cover up for Marty now.

Live the GAA life.

It's all pervasive. Resistance is futile.

:)

If Marty had declared this there would probably be no conflict of interest. He's not likely to be called to do a news report about Renault or EV vehicles... unlike some other RTE staff who seem to have gotten goodies from Renault.

But does he tell them how to live, as you claimed?

If they go it makes it more difficult to get them in front of PAC?

They should go afterwards, or at least the ones who were involved in their barter shenanigans.

The government makes the laws.