RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

The most important question is does the cuts address the deficit fully. It's the only metric.

To me they look to be aiming at the low hanging fruit, sell a bit of land, let 400 go etc.. but cutting 2xm, pulse and the digital stations isn't going to save a whole pile, nor is getting rid of rte+1...is it?

And what is the plan for the current contractors....they seem to be where the money on 'talent' is being spent. Also how much contingency is needed to solve the issues around bogus self employment. They have said they have money out aside for this but haven't said how much.

It would be very interesting to know how much correspondents from the indo and Irish times etc are getting and why. They seem to be on about every topic, even when rte has their own correspondent for politics, finance, health etc. why do they need people from the indo and times when they have George lee and co?

There would want to be a lot more to this plan than what the indo have outlined, or it's just more of the same really.

I dont recall any qualms from RTE discussing redundancies in other companies, similarly ahead of official releases.

What goes around comes around.

How many of them work a 35 hour week for their salary?

Also don’t forget all the allowances they get, they’re probably not included in that figure.

I have first hand experience of that some years back, RTE had the story before any of the staff

Definitely not an Alanis Morrissette style ironic. But that's Journalism.

Regards...jmcc

Didn't rte try redundancy before and it went nowhere, hard to google it now as its all the current stuff

Was it established if these hundreds of contractors are included in the 1800 staff or on top, or are they fudging the numbers again

While I note your skepticism, I am absolutely sick of hearing about this far-right bogeyman that the great RTE is protecting us from. There is no national right wing media to speak of in this country. None. All (RTE included) sing from the same centre left hymn sheet.

If a couple of tiny online only one man band right wing outlets are a threat, well maybe we do need some mainstream diversity of thought. That's the only diversity that's not acceptable though.

In any case, I'm not saying RTE should go off air during a rapid reorganization, but that it should be given a bit of leeway if it's output is a bit chaotic during the transition. It should be able to cope because management feel that they can manage long term without those staff.

As I said, the real reason they want to take so long is to draw it out so that momentum gets lost and they can retain their bloated size.

DC pensions for staffsine 90's. FFS at least know what your talking about before shiteing on. Taking pleasure in ordinary workers loosing jobs go you. Cabbage

Do you honestly feel that their is a huge difference between Strategy 2024 and this "New Direction".

I currently don't see it.

• Reduction in staff over a set number of year
• Reduction in the number of broadcast service (all of which will have to be signed of on by the minister)
• Move of production from one part of the country to another
• "Continued" reduction of top pay
• potential sale of land
• invest more in digital and online services

I'd be surprised if they don't ask for the CO to move to the NCH.

Almost 20 years on boards, more of a reader ( I've an average of 20 odd posts a year. mostly shite) This thread really saddens me (RTE Employee). Why do people have such strong convictions and espouse strong opinions on things they really have no clue about. Not all staff in RTE are on outlandish salaries. I understand there will be trolls and dopes but FFS sake we are talking about people with families and mortgages on average salaries that will pay the the price for deals they had as much knowledge of as the average man on the street. Are you really getting your jollies from this?

I think maybe you should ask yourself why people have such strong opinions on RTE, and perhaps a lack of sympathy for the self inflicted predicament it now finds itself in. Has there been any self reflection at RTE on where things have gone wrong?

The truth is RTE has represented poor value for money for a long time. It spun a threadbare yarn for years about how it needed to pay inflated salaries to retain "talent". It told us that "Truth matters" but would only give the public their version of the truth.

The main thing though is that RTE has alienated much of its audience. Trust in journalism has been weakening for some time but for RTEs output it has completely evaporated.

People are entitled to opinions on any organisation, especially when they are badly run. But ordinary staff who where unaware of "Talent "contracts (because that's what this is about really) and would have **** all say in them somehow they self inflicted this? Your asking these people to self reflect?