RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Rte corrupt as hell and then they think the people should stump up for all this by paying a tv licence.

It only rubbish on Rte and never watch it, was hoping Rte would be gone for good

Easier to axe it, is that their plan to move Fair City to an indo producer?

If fair city is an independent production then it is far easier to control costs - RTE pay a single lump sum and the production company has to deliver for that price. If RTE wants a 10% reduction, it pays 10% less and doesn't have to figure out how to do that.

It also makes it far easier to cancel the production as RTE will be removed and protected from the IR blowback.

It doesn't quite have the same human impact as an involuntary redundancy though. When someone leaves voluntarily one can assume that in most cases they have organised their lives in a way that they will be ok.

Therefore how jobs are lost is not immaterial - it's actually very important.

I'd argue that most people don't really believe that there will be that many job cuts in RTÉ over the next 5 years. I imagine it will be closer to 100 if RTÉ are lucky and then for them not to begin recruitment for those roles.

I see RTE has budgeted €40 million for 400 redundancies. That's €100k per redundancy. Given the average annual salary there is €60k, on the face of it, it seems very generous indeed. I'd imagine anyone within a few years of retirement would grab it with both hands.

It's worth noting again that this €40 million is a NEW cost to be borne by the taxpayer, and is IN ADDITION TO the tens of millions of taxpayer funding needed to make up the shortfall in the annual RTE budget AND the tens of millions now needed to make up for non-payment of TV license fees this year.

Is Tubs in or heading to Iceland this week? If so, it's not looking good for him:-

I'd see industrial action being taken over that. You'll get all sorts of commentary about the likes of the Sunday Game being extracted from RTE.

Rock on a year later and id be 100% not a single thing has happened from that plan

Emma O’Kelly on the News at One sees no need for job cuts, doesn’t know where there is any fat in the work force

Yes, but at the same time, both she (NUJ) and the SIPTU representative were clear that they had no objections to the proposal for 400 voluntary redundancies. She said 120 will retire within the timeframe, which leaves just 280 that would be needed to sign up for the voluntary redundancy scheme. Given the €40 million budgeted for the scheme, it seems some very generous payouts could be on offer.

As expected, the Government actually has no interest in reforming RTE as the status quo works for them. So we can expect more of the same.

A major opportunity to reform broadcasting has been missed, as expected.

No doubt Tubridy will be back in a few months to square off this episode.

Tubridy won’t be back there.

Tubs will always be remembered as the man who sunk the rte ship.