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

Ive said it before.....they broke up FAS when it turned out they were a shower if chancers....why are they not doing the same with RTE?

Yes the country is full of it but can’t see Politicans going after local authorities unless forced into it. Local Authorities have had political “influence” on them in the past and digging that hornets nest might be a little close for comfort, no knowing what they would find out about party colleagues.

I expect the RTE public humiliation hearings to continue for some time as you can’t buy that level of publicity for the members holding court.

The sooner tv licence renewals falls off a cliff, the sooner Politicans will have to make a decision on RTE’s future funding. The 451k revelation might be the event to end the fence sitting in Dáil Éireann.

I'd imagine the shenanigans at RTE are a drop in the ocean compared to what goes on in the HSE. But no-one is ever going to touch that, too many people involved, i'd imagine 50%+ of the country knows someone at a desk job within that behomoth, and if anything ever tries to get done, it will be shut down almost immediately by "bUt PeOpLe WiLl dIe....."

The license fee is not optional if you have the qualifying equipment to decode a signal.

Reminding people of their obligation under law is neither inappropriate or solely up to Bakhurst.

He engaged in a practice that may cost us all money.

It brings An Posts credibility into it too.

The law hasn't changed because RTE management are incompetent. And it's not a point you can argue if do find yourself in court.

It's an extremely weird situation.

yes they should be looking at all Semi-states in same way, RTÉ is just the tip of the iceberg. But RTÉ makes it look like they are doing their job.

Like I said it's a pragmatic management decision by RTE.

Read the post.

How can a company make the CFO position redundant? This is one of the most important roles in a company any company and usually the CFO is the last to leave and turn out the lights when a company folds. This is just a farce.

"It brings An Posts credibility into it too."

An Post are good at their core business. Everything else they delve in is expensive & inefficient. For many years, there has been a fall off in households ignoring the licence and An Post have done feck all to chase it, despite that it's been their gig.

It's your opinion lad, I'm entitled to mine. It's how discussion works.

Although my opinion went nowhere near a literal government TD accused him of doing yesterday.

Brendan Griffin, a Fine Gael TD, queried why RTÉ decided to pull advertising of the TV licence on channels outside its own platforms last July.

“Ultimately I made the decision for a number of reasons,” Bakhurst said.

“The main reason was because I thought that given what was emerging about RTÉ at that stage, and the constant scandal that was unfolding, I thought it would be inappropriate for us to be paying for adverts demanding people to pay the licence fee.”

Griffin was highly critical of this decision, claiming it was a deliberate attempt by the board to get rid of the licence fee and collapse revenues.

“Was this strategic? Is this part of hoping that the licence fee will ultimately fail and completely collapse and you’ll get what you were looking for,” the TD said.

So do you go along with Deputy Griffin's take on it ,in general, that there was an ulterior motive , I go with Backhursts take on it as a management decision.

I don't see anything else pal.

Don't think Deidre O'Keeffe will be paying back the money any time soon..

Kevin B indicated she left under the scheme and that there were "savings" made by 2 other employees leaving the department.

But that begs the question .. what savings were made to get rid of these 2 people?

I really think that there should be a fraud investigation to decide if D Forbes and D O' Keeffe concocted a scheme to allow DOK to leave with a huge severance package without complying with company policy.

It seems crazy that only 2 people were involved in the decision to give DOK the package .. and one of them seems to be DOK

Sick notes might not be so quickly accepted by the Gardai

The cheek of O'Keefe to have her solicitors contact Backhurst to have him say things on her behalf. Fair play to Backhurst in telling her to make them herself as she has an invite to the hearing. Maybe that's why he blurted out her package, he is just sick of having to deal with the crap that these cowards created. O'Keefe must have a high opinion of herself doing what she did.

No it won’t…..all the Politicans are jumping on this bandwagon to get their own sound bite in.

Political grand standing at its best……and it stops the questions about issues that do impact us like housing, transport etc.

If this was a former Sec General of a Department they would be trusting some process or other.

“The investigation is ongoing and we wait for all the facts before making any further comment” 🤔