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

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If she can get the shopping, she can answer questions from the PAC or whoever wants to ask.

Correct and right Mr H, there’s the problem in a nutshell.

Like Ballsy, and others, this coterie of folk alledgedly see RTE as the ‘Mother Lode’ for the nice little earner to supplement

their already nice little earners.

They are not going to harm their chances to to dig the snout into the trough of plenty.

It's a bizzare obsession with death and misery,you can almost guarantee there will be one or both on every TV or Radio show. It's like Tubridy infected the whole place.

I thought someone from this thread has already been site banned for being a paid pro Tubridy poster ?

That’s probably why people are suspicious of certain posters.

Dee won't be attending next week's session......

https://evoke.ie/2024/02/10/news/proof-dee-forbes-under-medical-care-given

The Irish people being taken for mugs again and there’s nothing they will do about it.

Very smart move by Forbes to pull the sicknote out of the hat back in July. She's untouchable now and they know it. This is Angela Kerins all over again. Her GP will supply a letter stating acute phycological distress etc etc and the politicians can go F themselves then.

If anything was ever going to come of this, the Gards would have to investigate and they do not want to know. It needs to go to litigation for answers to be got.

Where are the new Charlie Bird's of Irish journalism? Shouldn't someone be dispatched to Bantry to knock on some doors and shove a microphone in a few faces?

Accountability is for the little people.

David McRedmond nearly bankrupted TV3. Bought for 260m, sold for 80m, lost the ITV soaps. And as for Buckhurst do you think he would have fallen down this whole, he was their for six months under Dee.

Sinn Fein Idea, is now to fund via Exchequer up to €140m (less than what they get out of the licence fee currently) and because An Post losses the contract to sell the licence fee to give them 14m a year for as a replacement, just a few million because you lost a contract. what nonsense.

Plus TG4's exchequer funding of 50m and what every the Irish Film Board get.

total license fee comes to 221.5 million in 2022

Your talking about 300m in funding going into TV and Film in total.

Well something needs to change. The court time, 2000 hearings last year for non-payment of the license. What an utter waste of time and money. Jailing someone for not buying a TV License. More wasted money, at a time when prison space is at a premium. Someone with 83 convictions against their name could be let out early to accomodate Paddy O'Toole who didn't buy a TV LIcense. It's farcical.

Plus, since RTE stopped broadcasting on analogue, buying a TV nolonger instantly means you can even get RTE, you have to buy a Saorview box to even be able to recieve it. Might as well call it a Saorview License.