RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

There are questions, however, about how the car allowance might have been used by RTE to make salaries appear lower than they actually were. Where salary scales are fixed car allowance can be used to differentiate between colleagues who should otherwise have been on the same salary.

Whatever about Galway, I'd say the delights of Leitrim would have RTE staffers penning emails furiously.

Dept Social Protection investigated/ ing 500 cases of bogus self employment in RTE!!

In other words, they've kissed that €150K goodbye.

He made the comment earlier that they could not afford a round of voluntary redundancies.

Surely eliminating those personal allowances would drive a fair few people to just resign? The place needs all the chaff cut out. Mind you - there may be very little left if they did that.

Fight, handbags at dawn between Griffin and Shortt!

Everyone on the board kissing Kevin's ass

Clearly Robert Shortt can't read the room - warning us that not paying the TV license is a serious matter. Who the fock does he think he is? 

They're looking for €50 million of our money and offering absolutely nothing in return: no cutbacks, no compulsary or voluntary redundancies, no cuts in pay or allowances, no selling off of assets, nothing. 

They should be sent packing and told not to come back until they have real proposals.

Just tuned in... The meeting Chair has clearly been told to give time to these Board members to give their pre-prepared RTE rehabilitation speeches. Gov need this to justify start taxing us at source for their RTE mouthpiece.

I'm assuming that nobody asked about: Moya getting 800k / the CFO getting huge redundancy / when is Dee going to answer questions? Of course not, we'll let those people sail off into the sunset. We all know it's going to be the low and medium paid RTE workers who are going to be the one's to suffer. Watch how diligently they police these shft allowances for the little people!

Richard (CFO) is currently standing on the end of a plank.

FFS!!!! Bakhurst notes that the current leadership team is an ‘interim’ one - though points out that his own new recruitment ban may make it difficult to find permanent appointees.

How convenient.

Brendan Griffin made a quip about his constituents thinking they would better off at this stage buying a round of drinks than paying the TV license. Shortt took exception and decided to tell him off, forgetting perhaps, that he sat on a board for 5 years that was proven to be manned with incompetents, also ignoring the fact that his boss was there with a begging bowl because of said incompetence. It was exactly the wrong time to be getting all high-and-mighty.

His haughtiness probably cost RTE another few grand in unpaid license fees.

Different feel to this hearing today.

Basically everyone knows they are giving them the money. The bad guys are sent home and the good guys are now in charge. I can't help feeling everyone in that room is happy to create that impression. Alot of praise for Kevin.

I don't know if alot has changed. 80k per year for fair city set photographer. Hardly the first role you need to fill if struggling for cash.