RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I’d say tubridy was cute enough to have a separate contract for radio and a get out clause for both…

Don't think so. The contract may have been among the papers submitted to the PAC or the Media Committee. It also mentioned the TV show and the radio show. Since Tubridy broke the contract by no longer presenting the LLS and there were reports of a new contract to cover his radio show being under negotiation, RTE does not have a contract with Tubridy. As for the invoices, RTE should not have paid him anything. He's a contractor without a contract.

Regards...jmcc

RTE should start removing all traces of his presence (intellectual property) and change the programme name. RTE needs to assert its position and rights. Otherwise, Bakhurst might as well stay on his holidays.

Regards...jmcc

The contracts are here https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/33/committee_of_public_accounts/other/2023/2023-07-11_briefing-document-hayes-solicitors-on-behalf-of-ryan-tubridy-and-noel-kelly-r2029-pac33_en.pdf

2015 contract starts on page 1, and the 2020 contract starts on page 18.

It does seem that the higher salary was for the "exclusive services of Ryan Tubridy" which imo makes it very interesting regarding how so many papers from 2010 - 2018 reported on how the bbc wanted him, without any journalist putting their name to the article.

Copying and pasting from the PDF is not really working correctly in firefox, whether or not it is the OCR or the way it was converted to PDF I do not know. So this may be better looked at from the original link as it holds some of the relevant information [I will try to bold].

There is so much to look at in those pages that it is not surprising that the pac did not get to ask all of the relevant questions after only seeing them for 15 minutes. I wonder if Tubs thought that 8.3 allowed him to use that clause for the pregnant woman in the taxi from Dundalk for almost €1000, and if so, who in rte authorised it first?

All of the publications are here to read https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/publications/?q=&date=&term=%2Fie%2Foireachtas%2Fhouse%2Fdail%2F33&fromDate=05%2F08%2F2023&toDate=05%2F08%2F2023&committee%5B%5D=%2Fen%2Fcommittees%2F33%2Fcommittee-of-public-accounts%2F&topic%5B%5D=correspondence&topic%5B%5D=minutesAgendas&topic%5B%5D=opening-statements-submissions&topic%5B%5D=briefing-papers&topic%5B%5D=correspondence&topic%5B%5D=minutesAgendas&topic%5B%5D=opening-statements-submissions

We were told at some point during the hearings that the reason the big presenters are paid so much is because they can attract sponsors and advertisers during the break want to be associated with the show because of the presenter. If Tubridy does come back, I think any sponsor going forward for the next few years would expect a hefty discount because of the controversy and I would expect a lot of advertisers would too. Wouldn't surprise me if Renault sales are down because of all this.

They should make a clean break, thats the reason for the self employment contracts they handed out and we're told that the presenters are paid a premium because of the precariousness of the contracts. Let someone else snap up Tubs after all we're told thats another reason we've been paying him a premium

Yea, and Ryan would love to be working.

It’s madness, the people want Ryan, he wants to be there for them and management keep him out while still paying him.

Its confusing when Bakhurst says he's not worried about the drop off in licence fee revenue, that the organisation is fully funded for the next two years.

Where did this extra money come from, was it from the sale of land? If Tubridy is let go, there's some hope of licence fee revenue recovering, but if he's brought back in the next few weeks, there's no hope of it recovering anytime soon.

And this extra money was surely intended to fund reforms or else public sector broadcasting, not to plug the gap left by the Tubridy fiasco.

Either way RTE will be down tens of millions because of this, and Bakhurst doesn't seem too bothered.

You'd wonder did Kevin and Leo have an auld chin wag and Leo told him the government would address any short fall in license fee.

tbf, this is far more than tubridys fault, theres clearly a deeply imbedded culture within rte, thats been going on long before he turned up, this is ultimately what we need to face and resolve, we cant keep just keeping on here, this is a serious misuse of public resources and public money!

ah bit of a loaded comment, tbh, id say many of us would do almost the same thing, if in that situation, if our employer was willing and able to pay us as such, i suspect most of us would do it, i probably would myself, but its how the whole situation has unfolded, he wasnt the only one lying about his pay, or holding back the information, there really is something for more deeper to be resolved here, we cant allow this to continue. we all know more and more are starting to struggle in society, we really need our public services, including our media services to be functioning as efficiently as possible, this whole situation is a big fcuk you to all of that, we cant allow this to continue....

It bears repeating - Tubridy is NOT a popular figure in Ireland - it is not surprising that a car brand that sponsored his show suffered by association with his weird “d4 Willy wonka” persona.

Yeah but the government would ultimately be determining how much taxpayers' money RTE gets, and there would always be the suspicion the DG would be sauntering in to the Minister for Communication's office and murmuring darkly "Nice little public reputation your government's got there, wouldn't want to see it get damaged by any negative media coverage."

This guy has a suggestion for getting round this 'perception'

RTE should be funded from central exchequer funds, at a sum fixed as a proportion of the tax revenue generated each year.

Of course he is a popular figure. Hundreds of thousands watched his TV show and listened to his lovely radio programme.

He has raised huge sums for charity, delighted thousands of children with the wonderful Toy Show and helped St Vincent De Paul. That probably wouldn't be enough for some people, but it has made him very popular. with many others The fact he is well paid won't change that.

I said it before, he would have been well positioned to run for the Presidency and would have been excellent in the role. With all this negativity, that probably won't happen now. But to say he is not a popular figure is very wrong, it's just horrible tbh.