Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I’ve always said on a like for like basis, Tubridy offers genuine value for money compared to Joe Duffy.
A relative statement if ever there was one for sure as both are grossly overpaid, but he’s much more professional, articulate, and even worked more hours than Duffy.
You’d think Joe would be grateful he’s gotten away with it for so long but no, every 6 months or so we get an NKM-penned puff piece that you’d be forgiven after reading it for thinking he’s on the verge of ringing the Vincent DePaul for a handout. I’ve heard from a very reliable source that he’s one of those who shall we say wasn’t exactly agreeing with the DG that contracts would have to be re-evaluated. I’d say most definitely his current contract in RTÉ will be his last. And good riddance.
I don't think rte should be refusing any information that PAC is asking.
If the rank and file staff want rte to be seen as professionally and honestly run then any info requested should be released.
If the board, management 'top earners' are holding out then maybe it's time the government grew some b@lls and reminded them who exactly pays their overinflated salaries
Unlike hospitals etc. RTE could disappear and not be needed (I am not in favour of this). At a minimum RTE should relocate and sell Montrose. Take the opportunity to sell off certain functions and reduce staff. Any real change won't be coming from inside RTE but from above.
Possibly less than 20K after the NKM agent fee and taxes,
Regards...jmcc
In all the discussion of this story, has anyone asked an obvious question - what negotiations were there about Tubridy’s future earnings after he announced that he was stepping down from the LLS?
Was there even a discussion in which e.g. the outgoing DG said the matter would be handled by her successor? The figure of €170K which leaked when a deal seemed done with Bathurst would have been a shocker when he jumped ship from the LLS.
Could it possibly be that Tubridy (and Noel Kelly) expected - don’t laugh- to maintain his income while dropping a major part of his work? That sounds mad but if no one in management raised the issue with him after the huge fanfare about his announcement, he could reasonably assume that it was agreed.
He was that desperate to come back, word class and in demand as he is, that he was effectively working for €20k for year 1-given that he'd undertaken to return the €150k he didn't earn.
I can't believe there isn't more of an uproar about this.
Spot on.
The 170k fee/ salary that he was about to return to the radio for, is still absolutely scandalous when you think of the hours involved and the amount of work he puts in.
Definitely one of the easiest gigs, closely followed by those held by some of his former colleagues who are still coining it with their ridiculous salaries for a couple of hours work, at most, per day.
Plus the fact that RTE is going down the Swanee river, in debt. Scandalous.
Tells us what we already knew, he needed RTE much more than they needed him. So much for market competition and all the other BS we’ve been hearing for decades. He’s was willing to ‘pay to play’ cos he knew he could still milk the place and had nowhere else to go.
So here is the thing, RTÉ cannot afford to pay their higher earners they money that they may expect (RTÉ have stated this, by saying they have no money), so here's the thing RTÉ decide they pay them their salary as is and tell them if they want to go find a better job to find a company to work for that will pay them more. RTÉ have pointed out that they have one of the lowest turnovers of staff in the country.
Regardless of Car allowances there are plenty of other things RTÉ are wasting money on, that could be used for content.
You seem to be under this false fallacy that RTÉ employ the best people. I think this period must show you this is clearly not the case.
Tubridy was so eager to get back on RTE that he effectively offered to pay RTE that 150K.
Guess that without his RTE show, he's just a regular nobody with a Sixties fixation.
They do pay for their own cars. A car allowance is a fairly widely used practice across numerous industries, this isn't some public sector / semi-public special case thing.
They should work for their wage with no bonuses and they should pay for their own cars like the rest of us.
So despite promising to release those Top Earner names to an Oireachtas Committee they’ve now decided “no, we won’t”? Like who TF do they think they are?
I bet the employees of Virgin and Newstalk are slack jawed reading the list of allowances Rte staff are paid. The staff have gone very quiet now. You always knew that once anyone got into RTE, they were on the pig’s back.
Summarising latest news from The Journal ahead of Media Committee tomorrow... I remember previous comments to the Committee where RTE downplayed the cost of promoting the Toy Show Musical.
No, it doesn't affect tax.
It's a way to increase a person's salary without having to increase employer pension contributions or bonus payments.
Tax avoidance basically, not tax evasion but using the rules as a state body to minimise taxes etc
It's not really that remarkable though is it. Tubridy's salary over the last decade plus, bore no relationship to his abilities or talents, whatever they may be.
He was just in the right place at the right time and capitalized on a crazy situation of poor governance within a public sector organisation. His natural level is lunchtime filler radio with a salary well south of 200k pa. He's no fool. He's knows he's been staggeringly fortunate and why wouldn't he want to keep the easiest gig in Irish media for what would have been a still, eye watering fee for so little work and effort. There's a reason why the national broadcaster is always going to be viewed as the pinnacle for anyone in media. Big audience share, big salaries and performance not necessarily the primary consideration.
Well hands up there’s an awful lot I didn’t know about that particular subject!
It was a one hour slot last year with all the associated perks and he was getting about €200k for it, and I suspect that before all this broke he was expecting to get similar.
While I don't doubt that he can afford the hit and could well be taking a long term view it's remarkable how much less he was willing to take to stay in rte.
Paying car allowance is cheaper than paying higher salaries. This arrangement saves RTE money.
The larger the proportion of an employees income from RTE is car allowance vs standard salary, the more money RTE is saving.
What is odd is that they paid 650,000 in car allowance is a company that was supposed to be broke and finding difficult in the current market.
650,000 in terms of TV could provide you with an additional 13 episodes of lifestyle programming, 2 to 6 episode of a drama or comedy, at the lower end of budgets.
RTÉ seem to know how to spend money on everything but content.
If you were to add up to 16 staff to your digital radio stations to improve them, or invest it in radio comedy or radio drama.
650,000 could even pay for a staff to look after the RTÉ News channel.
Moving expenses (Dee got 50k in 2016, she was spending her time between cork and london so should not have been entitled to this)
Car allowances (650k)
Annual new season parties (70k)
All of these incidentals add up.
Nowwe see that RTE paid out nearly 1M in allowances, 650K for car allowances...It could not get any better....I mean what the Holy F........
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.
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.
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?
We should remember that the current incumbent came second to her in the last competition for the post!
Your mathematical reasoning is way off. RTÉ will reframe & rebrand. RT will be obsolete in this process, & a liability to boot.
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
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...
