Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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At home in bed, the latest he will be on is the 9 O'Clock news.
It is mainly a commercial outfit but with a subsidy that allows for inefficiency and excess that would otherwise put them out of business.
That is why, rather than trying to make it a public service broadcaster, make it a fully commercial one that it more or less already is, and let it stand on its own two feet.
Fund public service content separately and make it available to all broadcasters.
Love him or loathe him, Yates is talking so much sense.
They won't. No Irish government would ever let that happen.
A young DLB talking about his dream of emigrating to London to work in media. Looks like his perseverance and hard work has finally paid off 😂
https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/television/5088262/rte-ryan-tubridy-cringe-today-hair/amp/
I wouldnt be so sure the public mood is angry and it might get a positive reaction from them. The RTE model is outdated. None of the young people I know watch TV anymore and that isn't about to change.
I'm not on facebook but you should see his instagram if you want to see a love in. The key to Instagram is you can delete any shall we say #unkind comments and present a picture of one's self garnering universal praise and adulation. Yoiu can see why RenaultMan would like it. I'd say the interns in NK Towers are busy with the delete buttons...........
Has there ever been a Minister so invisible in a crisis?
"We need to pat ourselves on the back a bit more"
She's a close second to Eamonn Ryan's vacillations in Transport, IMO.
It really is bottom of the barrel stuff with no real public service element except to satisfy the death and misery fetishists. What other country ion the world tries to make a "celebrity" out of a pathologist? Between this and her appearance on Dancing With The Staff RTE are really pushing Cassidy for reasons that remain unclear.
I think it was dismantled for him after his petulant behaviour all summer. I wouldn't rule out NK keeping it in his back pocket for a reveal at some stage in the future.
Was also on VM The Restaurant.
Maybe dr Marie Cassidy is the one that should be called to look into Rte.
I think they're saving her until RTE actually passes. That won't be long now, but it wouldn't look good to undertake the PM whilst there's still some small signs of life.
I suppose its because I like those types of programs but I like it. Criminologist and the like are becoming well known due to the increase of crime docs
Yates on the money as usual last night. Particularly in his closing analysis that the only thing we will see happening here is a sticking plaster solution involving a large bung to RTE to keep the lights on. The only consideration for TDs being getting beyond the next election.
As for Peter Feeney suggesting that RTE is essentially a great PBS and this is only a bit of fiddling at the top regarding salaries of top presenters and management..........Is he having a laugh? RTE morphed from a PBS into an advertising agency and a vehicle for the promotion of a number of clients of one agent. This one agent then acquired de facto editorial control of the output of the broadcaster. Is it a coinkydink that NK Management people were blockading the RTE schedule from one end of the week to the other? Isn't it a bit odd that NK Mgmt people were constantly sitting opposite 'The Most Trusted Man in Ireland' while many other people with very valid stories to tell, were blacklisted from the show because...reasons.
Ivan Yeats is aware of what RTÉ was given, pointing out the move of the NSO over to the NCH last year, the €50m in extra funding that was given to them over 5 years and I assume continues even with the extra 25m that they are to get in the budget.
Remember RTÉ lost €2.8 but in the same year they saved €7m to 8m as they didn't not have to fund the NSO, can anyone tell me if there was an improvement in RTÉ in 2022, or am I missing something, where did the money go?
Pensions probably. When a fake subcontractor becomes an employee their pension needs to be funded. There is also the issue of Scope penalties and interest, but this is the state paying the state. I believe they have already paid 2m, and someone said they have another 8m set aside for Scope.
Honestly, I don't know if The Irish Times are click baiting here / trying to stick the boot in, or the quality of this piece is just fairly low. Maybe they're trying to whip up hysteria, or maybe they are confusing car allowance with mileage or company car.
A 5 minute exercise in learning what a "car allowance" is would let them know that what RTE are doing is completely normal and not in any way unusual.
Yeah, a car allowance would be a pretty standard part of a remuneration package. I've had one for the last 20+ years, having opted out of company car schemes to avail of same.
I haven't read the article, but knowing RTE I wouldn't be surprised if some were availing of it when they wouldn't/shouldn't be entitled to same. I guess that's where the issue could lie.
The article is basically saying that RTE pays car allowances without employees having to have a driving license. That's it. The implication is that there's some sort of story in the fact that you can get a car allowance without having a license to drive.
Only 17 employees get a car allowance.
As you say, totally normal, and I suspect someone at The Irish Times is confused.
Well that does change things a bit as a car allowance is normally in lieu of you taking a company car. A company car is normally provided to people whose job requires them to be off site etc. at times for meetings etc.
I'd wager that one warrants a closer look at from revenue/tax compliance perspectives, but admittedly I'm not an expert in this area. On the face of it, it does appear a little odd.
Car allowance is nothing to do with taking a company car or not. It also has nothing to do with whether you are required to go off site or not.
It's essentially additional salary, except the money paid via car allowance is not eligible for pension contributions or bonus calculations. If you're made redundant it would not be factored into any redundancy pay calculation.
There's nothing odd here, tax wise it's just treated like the rest of your salary. From a Revenue point of view it makes no difference if your salary is 200k, or your salary is 180k with a 20k car allowance, you'll pay the exact same tax.
If you are paid 30k salary and 10k car allowance then you'll be put into the higher tax band, you can't use it to dodge tax.
Why it's called "car allowance" I have no idea, it really has nothing to do with a car. Revenue refer to it as a "round sum allowance".
Your employer could call it your "living allowance" or whatever, though I guess The Irish Times might write an article about RTE paying a living allowance to employees who don't own a home...
Has this car / round sum allowance been included in the disclosed pay figures I wonder.
Car allowance is one of the examples of it listed
Some typical round sum payments may include a:
https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/employee-expenses/round-sum-allowances/index.aspx
Your mathematical reasoning is way off. RTÉ will reframe & rebrand. RT will be obsolete in this process, & a liability to boot.
We should remember that the current incumbent came second to her in the last competition for the post!
That was before the move of the NSO over the NCH. Are you sugggesting to me that RTÉ haven't planned anything! and were just waiting for the move?
It's interesting to note now that we see Tubridy was willing to work for €95k for the next two years (salary less Renault repayment, though it should be noted that the €150k cost RTE substantially more).
It's an interesting observation for the talent market in Ireland in that the top radio presenter was willing to work for €95k.
It's a one hour slot... back in at RTE he'd have lots of opportunities for topping that up. I'm sure he could afford the hit for 2 years knowing he is back on the gravy train.
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