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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,247 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Rte. The gift that keeps on giving🥴

    I agree wholeheartedly with anyone who says rte needs to be changed before tv licence payment decision is made or else we're back to the old suck-the-well-crowd looking after themselves and to hell with the little people.


    God but that Forbes has so much to answer for and the cowardly weasel (no offence to actual weasels) is hiding behind her sick note.

    Shame on her.

    Shame on o Keeffe for her greed.

    Shame on Moya, she's not trustworthy in my op.

    The whole frigging shower of them🥺🙄

    And bakhurst is not the saviour he's made out to be. Cotton wool has more back bone.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    Why would anyone get an exit package when they resign??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,695 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    No sign of Coveney or Forbes to answer questions

    Did I hear correct Forbes got no exit package?

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    You get an exit package typically when you are handed your resignation letter instead of handing in your resignation letter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,416 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Backhurst must have thought it was somehow ok. No doubt it's a deal with silence purchased from the resigned person regarding the deal too.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    He was in the golden circle. Too big a name to question, a brand that RTE had deluded themselves into thinking they couldn't do without. It wasn't for nothing that practically all of RTE's on air talent was represented by Noel Kelly either. A very cute operator who obviously knew how to extract top money for his clients



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,003 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Plus. The convention centre is a strange choice. The Gaiety would be the obvious choice. Was there a brown envelope from the Convention Centre saying "Here's a few thousand to help you decide what venue you want to choose..", Considering its obvious basic financial management was not performed, I'd assume 3rd party vendor procurement processes were not followed either. So half the cast were probably friends of some of the management types.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,706 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Yep I have been asking that question for ages. The next CFO was also baffled by it. Richard Something who is also gone now.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,003 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    But... but... but, Its my patriotic duty to pay the TV License!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 843 ✭✭✭kazamo


    Forbes was leaving anyway and brought forward her departure date using holidays.

    Her last day in RTE was the week before all this broke.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 843 ✭✭✭kazamo


    Not so strange when you realise TD’s get redundancy even if they choose not to stand for re-election.

    Some of the blame for this rests with the Revenue Commissioners who don’t seem to query these roles being made redundant without a merger or acquisition or closing of a location etc taking place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    wonder do any of the higher-ups in rte read this....? just in case they do...may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your arse and may your arms grow too short to reach your arse ...

    yo! donnie vonredactedpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu,vic orban..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,706 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    Is Timmy still sitting in the Seànad, the home for bewildered ex TD’s ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    How did Eimear Cusack even got that job?

    She's now waiting on her own golden handshake at our expense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    450k exit pay is lottery type money.

    RTE has been broke for years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    RTE can't be trusted with large sums of money.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭batman75


    Dee Forbes is taking the pee out of those that paid her wages for years. I suspect her illness isn't very genuine. Indeed as others have said it's a kick in the teeth for all those who have genuine mental health issues. It's a shame the Government can't suspend her pension until she appears to answer. These people are happy to pick up their fat pay cheques, goodbye money and fat pensions yet won't accept that they are accountable for their actions.

    All we as the public can do is shun her until she dies or wakes up to the reality that her huge rewards came with corresponding responsibilities and they now require her to answer honestly for her time at RTE. I have no faith in Bakhurst to reform RTE in any meaningful way. Full of hot air and soundbites.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭batman75


    Given how inept O'Keeffe was as CFO the Government should pursue her for every penny of her exhorbitant redundancy package. The whole thing is a joke. Forbes had some neck pleading for an increase in the TV License fee while authorising the redunancy package and Tubridy's side payments.

    Tubridy is also a b*stard of the highest calibre. If he never set foot in Ireland again it would be great. He is a stain. A talentless twat who was grotesquely remunerated at our expense. If he had any moral fibre, which he doesn't, he would repay every side penny he earned. He had the neck to come on TV during the pandemic and tell us we're all in it together. All the while the little prat was coining it as people lost their jobs or had their income slashed whilst still working.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    Gross incompetence - that's the only conclusion you can reasonably make about Forbes. Not up to the job. There are other conclusions but they be better left unsaid.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,695 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Timmy the clown who was delighted with himself when he asked a last minute question about an RTE "star" who benefitted from the use of a free vehicle, only to backtrack the very next day when it was revealed to be his fellow county man Marty Morrissey.



  • Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RTE doesn't have that 15m in cash to pay revenue when the times comes.

    It'll be straight to government with the hand out as usual.

    Government bails out RTE from state funds, RTE pays Revenue, Revenue hands the money back to state funds. Waste of time and effort really.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭arctictree


    What is with these 'Exit Packages'?! Surely if someone resigns they get nothing. Why would you pay them? They are gone! Totally different than a redundancy situation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭CollyFlower


    Who is the old lady with the short grey hair, is she over all of the RTE staff including Kevin Burkest?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,435 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Brian Stanley of Sinn Fein has asked Breda O'Keefe to pay the money back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,225 ✭✭✭✭klose


    Got my reminder that my to licence is due end of month, think I’ll pass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,706 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    O'Keefe got a "redundancy" package which represents the license fee paid by over 2,800 people.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    They didn't resign, they were resigned. In other words, they were told their services were no longer needed.

    Effectively, their contracts were bought out.



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