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

aye,they are STILL pishin it away with no end in sight it seems...ffs enough is enough...tired of the usual 'contractual agreements' 'confidentiality clauses' 'legal advice' load of bollix...only thing i havnt heard yet is 'lessons learned' its public/tax payer funded,we should know how our money is spent and on what...

I'd agree with almost all you say there Floppy, however I would say politicians are not overpaid for day to day stuff

Look at how Georgie scuttled back to the bosom of Montrosia when he realised the workload involved.

And he had the nice backstop back to the Pink Palace if the voters copped onto him.... most don't have that safety net.

So speaking of Dee Forbes and the title of the thread and @Floppybits question.

The first date for her being in front of an oireachtas committee(joint committee on communications, climate action and environment) as DG is November 22nd, 2016.

That initial appearance doesn’t seem to have gone down well in the Seanad, as two days later, senator Terry Leyden says she “made a fool of the committee”, as she was appointed on April 1st, 2016.

There’s five pages of results when you search her name, but that includes her appearing before committees and being mentioned in debates in both the Dail and Seanad.

^ God almighty..

Does this happen anywhere else?

I'm as green as grass about stuff like this. Is it actually legal or even moral?

Instead of practically pleading with Forbes and anyone else who won't appear, PAC need to get the.dinger out and start going the legal way.

One year later and no-one has actually been held responsible for the crap that is rte and their very questionable operations.

Since they decided to close the Tubsidy thread and don't know where the main conversation on RTE has moved too.

But seriously on what f-ing planet do you round 450K to 400K!!! It is getting beyond a joke at this stage and pure fraud!!

When did they last round any figures up by 50K!!!

They are all corrupt as hell, and should be Jailed as far as I am concerned!!

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0216/1432648-rte/

That's about the size of it. Unless fraud squad et al gets involved, this goes nowhere. The power to compel they have is feeble as it gets and will be vigorously fought by all the sicknotes. There's not a chance in hell any of these "distressed" "mentally fragile" or possibly even "suicidal" people will be compelled to do anything.

It's going to be fascinating to see how this plays out. 450k going away gifts for executives who lawyer up and put themselves beyond accountability while Joe Soap struggling to makes ends meet is told pay your dues to this organisation or take a fine and a conviction.

RTE cannot be trusted with public money.

I'm baffled how anyone could pay their licence fee after all this other than of course a desire not to break the law.

There is of course more to come out about this organisation.

And yet Adrian Lynch and Eimear Cusack are still working there!

Are we a nation of eijets?

Cosy club there. And Catherine Martin has been vastly disappointing in her position to represent the licence fee payer.

She has done nothing and is waiting on reports and reports and then when she gets them she does nothing.

The farce and scandal remained when we saw that Oliver Callan is being paid 150 grand for one hour of radio a day with presumably 8 to 10 weeks off a year.

No change.

In fairness to Callan, I'd say that pay rate is correct. @Hotmail what do you think he should be paid?

What more did you expect from a Green minister - she's still probably trying to work how she has a position of power while watching the lettuce grow

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41333449.html

You'd think someone there might go... well the previous presenter is now getting X for 3 times the hours so maybe we should calculate it based on that... but no, must pay stupid wages

No, they shouldn't calculate on that. If they were set on Callan then they should have tried to find his minimum number. Callans number would have to exceed other income he could make during this time.

To do this radio show, callan would likely have to forego other work which might include touring for example so maybe that's how they landed on €150k.

No change indeed.

When Bakhurst offered Tubridy a new contract we should have been calling for his head there and then.