RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

You can find PAC meetings from 3-4 years ago with RTE in the room. It was about wayward spending. Spending outside of the procurement guidelines. People just going off and buying stuff with RTE money and nobody had any idea what it was.

The RTE team, including Dee, sat in front of everyone and told them they had it all sorted. Don't worry we are the new guys and we will stop all that sh*t that the old ones used to get up to. Sound familiar?

The place is rotten and it seems their guidelines etc are only publish to try keep people off their backs. None of them are adhered to.

Why wouldn't Tubs look to screw everyone over when he is probably aware of what the rest of RTE is up to? how could Geraldine or any of them go into negotiations with Tubs telling him they have no money and have to take a pay cut while he is watching them out on the freebies all the time, hiring buses because they can't walk a few hundred metres. If I was sitting in Tubs seat I would tell them to f**k off as well and pay me the proper money.

Of course Noel Kelly if he is a good agent should have all the information on the freebie gigs that RTE get up to and walk into each meeting with a list of them while RTE tell him that all his employees need to take a pay cut......

Clean out from top to bottom. That woman with her shaky voice and throwing out a few words of Irish should be fired on the spot for total incompetence. Then all the rest of them. The "talent" should be cut free and let them off to other channels. OR they can come back on similar wages to what they are actually worth, not what RTE and Noel Kelly have dreamt up.

The procurement system, maybe they should just outsource it because RTE seemingly have no control over it. Hand it over to someone else and see how far they get on reducing the over spending on rubbish.

Strict guidelines(like everyone else had) on corporate entertainment. None of this Geraldine and the hubbie nonsense. If a customer wants to bring their husband/wife that is their choice. That should not automatically mean the RTE employee has to bring their partner. No other company would do that, and if the partner wants to come then they pay for their expenses.

2FM, finally put the last nail in that coffin. Plus none of the staff kept on to sit in the canteen in RTE. I know some decent people but unfortunately for them the majority are Lottie etc so the good get dragged down with the useless.

Start with all of that, then come back and see about the license fee

Which my wife listened to one episode and said it was "f**king terrible"

and she likes Jen

They have yet to find a useless for the millions they have poured into Lottie Ryan

It was TD Dillon I believe who was following up on questions he & other public reps asked of RTE at the various hearings. Many of the public watched or followed the highlights of those hearings - just because it's summer holiday season doesn't mean that we've forgotten. The public are awaiting clear detailed answers and action before committing to pay TV licences.

I have a feeling RTE thought they would get some stick, the summer hols are coming up. The TD's will head off to the holidays and come back more interested in something else.

Sure don't we have posters on boards telling us all the time this thread is dying.

Problem is this is still a bit topic in the public. RTE kept saying they would send in XYZ, the TD is right to follow up on them. As we seen I think a few TD's just wanted to get a few snippets for social media and then feck off on hols with no intention to follow up

You’d have to assume it’s an official partnership given it’s on the RTÉ Twitter account and not a solo run.