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

There should be anonymity in any public role and this should be made clear to anyone taking up the roles.

Backhurst was at the wheel here when these new questionable exit deals were going on, what's he at?

How much did they lose on advertising while promoting their own show ,is included in the 2.3 million ?.

There's definitely a film or musical to be made from all these shenanigans.

The comment made with a laugh when they said they were going over time that "We'll delay our taxis no worries," taxis being paid by RTE for each and everyone of these out of taxpayers money would boil your blood.

Timmy Dooley "no one benefited from this", they did, they were living a life of luxury and enriching their mates and then when they left were given golden handshakes. So they did benefit from this.

In a way I can understand in my head what happened with TSTM. It was the pet project/big brain idea from two senior executives that everyone was afraid to call out. They went down a blind alley hoping it would all come good in the end. The mistakes they made were blindingly obvious though. Innovation in the public sector sadly is often limited because of the fear of failure, the fact that they didn't do a test production to see if there was appetite for their show is mad. If they had lost €250k on it, I don't think you could criticise them for trying something different, or pulled the plug early when it was sinking.

What I really don't understand though is the Tubridy payments affair. I can't fathom why executives would put their reputation on the line to retain any broadcaster, no matter how talented - let alone RT. Holding onto Tubs did Forbes absolutely no favours, the deal only contained risk for her. I still cannot understand her motivation.

Why did O'Keefe spill the beans on her own 450k redundancy?

It's obscene money.

Only fools will be paying their license fee now.

Maybe it was a case of Forbes paying back to whoever pulled the strings for her to get the position of DG ,because as we have seen,she was in no way suitable for that position.