Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

Don't think there is any question regarding redundancy payments where the job is immediately filled. That is the whole point of making a position redundant - it no longer exists, unless you are the person in control of the finances and fancy a nice exit package.

Should be criminal and fraud charges brought against her

Rhymes with?

Would it be Clooney? More clues please.

Correct. An individual isn’t made redundant , their job is.

Exactly - don't pay the licence you are brought to court - waste tax payers money, defraud the company, spend money with no accountability and sail off in to the sunset with a nice little package. All the pensions for these people should be stopped and any payouts taken to court to recoup the money.

It's sickening that people with little money are penalised and nothing is done about the real criminals

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Dee is trending on Twitter / X.

The leadership team when it is announce will possibly not include Eimear Cusack, and I wonder how long Robert Short can stay in the role of Company Secretary. It is strange that Bakhurst would keep these people on this Leadership team. He's really not done very much in the time he has been there.

With all its much vaunted brilliance for investigative journalism, isn't it surprising that Prime Time or other programmes never uncovered or investigated all this activity in RTE?

Now, the poor feckers in RTE news find themselves having being played for chumps. The whole RTE organisation needs to be investigated. This also includes the former board and management.

Regards...jmcc

Ah now sure Dee and Moya wouldn't have had to have done all this jiggery-pokery had RTÉ been properly funded.

Did you not get that memo?

I personally think that Public Service Broadcasting is important and that we should have some from of public funding of it, however RTÉ have never lived up to the idea of being a public service broadcaster, it was always

1. The audience don't understand
2. We don't get enough money
3. Its a small country
4. We need to pay these people to get the best people

We now know almost all of the above are untrue when they systematically used the money for themselves and not content or services.

Has anyone mentioned Willie O'Reilly? Rejoined RTE from Today Fm in 2012 to become commercial Director but a couple of years later took an exit package. I was amazed that this was allowed go completely unchallenged at the time but the mainstream media in this country is one communal family that scratches each others backs. I would have thought that it is basic foundation level Junior Cert stuff to know that redundancy packages should be used for surplus to requirement staff who don't need replacing like a midnight to 2 DJ on 2fm who could be replaced by an automated playlist for example, not senior executives who are going to be replaced with someone new in the role.

Hopefully RTÉ will be gone

Willie O'Reilly left in 2018, I would say he left on the 2017 package, I don't see why not.

Frances Abeton left the role of Director of Operations and Production Services at the end of 2018, she'd been highlighted in the press on her arrival a year before, did she take up the offer to go? Note that her role was not replaced, and also that it looks and sounds like a made up role.

Did Jon William take up the 2021 offer when he left at the start of 2022? Do Executives get gold handshakes on Exiting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89_Executive_Board

Could be best to just close and restart from scratch at this stage..

Rebrand is useless with out change. Government should start the split.

• Move RnaG and all Irish Language commissions to TG4 (increase funding to TG4 by €17m)
• Move Orchestra and Lyric FM to National Concert Hall (increase funding by €14m, Lyric FM news provided by RTÉ)
• Take 2RN out of RTÉ altogether

We then have some movement of that split.

IMO This idea that it was an issue of money and commercialism that got RTÉ to where it is at is pure distraction, RTÉ have never been a good public service broadcaster and they would have played the same game even if they'd been less commercial. IMO.

These idea continue to suggest that RTÉ was always at the behest of outside forces and they could do nothing, in the words of Moya Doherty an "Existential Crisis".

How do you split the rest of PBS from commercial?

wonder what else is going to come out...? its nearly a year since yer man jacked in the late show and very little has actually been done since,yer one dees doctor needs to stop signing off on the sic notes and she has to be made answer questions,its OUR money she pished away after all...i really do think the only thing to do is close it up and start fresh...and in the mean time bring in the garda fraud squad.