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

Technically it's a license for having a TV. Do with it as you please.

Those going to court have had many opportunities to buy a licence or pay the fine before jail comes into the picture. As I understand it it's a quick visit anyway.

Yes but the vast bulk of it goes to fund RTE! We all can see how this has been handled..

So only 20 of 26 gave permission for their name to be released. Are we allowed speculate who the other six are?

1. Person 1 (Ms. Susan Ahern, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member)
2. Person 2 (Mr. Richard Collins, CFO of RTÉ and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
3. Person 3 (Mr. Rory Coveney, Director of Strategy)
4. Person 4 (Ms. Eimear Cusack, Director of Human Resources)
5. Person 5
6. Person 6 (Mr. Julian Erskine, External Consultant)
7. Person 7
8. Person 8 (Mr. David Harvey, Board of Director Member)
9. Person 9 (Mr. Daire Hickey, Board of Director Member and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
10. Person 10 (Mr. Jim Jennings, Director of Content)
11. Person 11 (Mr. Ian Kehoe, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
12. Person 12 (Ms. Deborah Kelleher, Board of Director Member)
13. Person 13 (Mr. Adrian Lynch, Director of Audience Channels Marketing in RTÉ)
14. Person 14 (Mr. PJ Mathews, Board of Director Member)
15. Person 15
16. Person 16 (Ms. Paula Mullooly, Director of Legal Affairs and Group Secretary)
17. Person 17
18. Person 18 (Mr. Connor Murphy, Board of Director Member, and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
19. Person 19
20. Person 20 (Ms. Anne O’Leary, Board of Director Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee)
21. Person 21 (Ms. Geraldine O’Leary, Director of Commercial and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
22. Person 22
23. Person 23 (Mr. Jonathan Ruane, Board of Director Member)
24. Person 24 (Mr. Robert Shortt, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member)
25. Person 25 (Mr. Richard Waghorn, Director of Operations, Transformation & Technology)
26. Person 26 (Ms. Moya Doherty, Chair of the RTÉ Board until November 2022).

Really? What make and model are they? Do they have Freeview built in or a satellite tuner. I have a 13 year old TV with Saorview from Walker.

Plus nowadays, you could have a family of 4, 4 phones, 4 tablets, 4 laptops, all accessing RTE content but no TV so no license.

There are students up and down the country whose student accomodation isn't big enough to fit a TV in, so they watch the Sunday Game or whatever on their phone. No TV, so no License.

I'm looking to upgrade my digital TV package and Sky are pushing Sky Stream which looks to be the future. No cable connection, no satelite, just stream it, which means you could have a monitor plugged into the sky box not a television, so no TV license required, but you can watch RTE.

The one im "looking" at right now is a Toshiba, I bought it for my dad for his 70th so its 16 years old. It has a Sky box plugged into it. No freeview.

I am because I am looking about this from the point of view of actual public service broadcasting not RTÉ.

As I say, you need to fix RTÉ before you change the way we pay for public service broadcasting. My preference is to split RTÉ, and to get rid of the company completely. But any new or existing public service broadcaster won't get very far with 140m, on top of paying for local media and broadcast services.

i didnt get my rte flip-flops yet so leave them out :)

the few times ive managed to watch TG4 it seems good..

on a more serious note...after the latest shite to come out rte needs to be closed until the garda fraud squad is brought in and finish their investigation...keep the one telly station and one radio station going with a few lads to keep the servers/transmitters going,run the archives as tv,break for news at 06:00/08:00/12:00/18:00/22:00 have a guy/girl to read that(radio and tv) but close it down now before any more of public(OUR)money is flushed down the jacks...all the staff out and be re-interviewed for their job,if they had no hand or part in any of the fraud thats gone on..yeah maybe you can have your job back...no more half a mill plus for talking utter scutter on the radio(joe duffy im looking at you) in fact no more super wages for the "talent". yes sounds harsh but enough is enough ffs...

let the unions be up in arms...havnt any time for unions after what was done by them in my industry,but they still looked for their sub every week!!

id jump at the chance to read the news,could do it from home nowadays on a zoom call into the station,get the tech lads to beam it out country-wide,sure id only have to wear a nice shirt and maybe a tie,have me superman shorts and flip-flops on under the table!

So this is what your TV License is paying for ... Loreal moments: