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

The press really are behind. Tweets saying RTÉ is going contact those that left since 2016.

I didn't read the full articles but I am guessing names were not mention

Frances Abeton, Brian Dalton, Glen Killane, Willie O'Reilly, Jon William and Murine Laffan 

Why did Bakhurst enter into a confidentiality agreement and why was the handshake deal so ridiculously high when the station is broke?

I because it looks bad.

Some one in Human Resource could provide a better outline of the issues on the Firing of people from a company, RTÉ had choices: -

1. Large payment to move the person along quickly (they choose this)
2. Consider Dismal paying out minimum 12 weeks severance due to the dismissal (there are a range of reasons you can be dismissed on)
3. Consider gross misconduct (no payment required here)

The first is the easy option, the second 2 could have Richard and Rory bring you to the WRC, but let them, it would be then in the public domain, I don't think either Rory or Richard would want that, and what if they lost?

But perhaps there is more, we prob should read the advice give to RTÉ, in that press release.

I agree, we saw what happened the last auditor that tried to do a good job - they changed auditor. Remember the emergency call they got st paddys day that something was up? All of a sudden a new auditor brought in.. hmmmmmm

The letters telling RTÉ to retain confidential do not actually show why RTÉ decided offer either Richard or Rory, on what legal grounds they might have been brought into the WRC.

I can understand why Bakhurst would want to get rid of both as quickly as possible and start fresh.

But the legal advise that he has provided has nothing to do with the exit package he and the board signed off on. Rather it is about the confidentiality of those exit packages.

If Bakhurst and RTE don't want to end up in the WRC then why not offer everyone a good exit package?

Would Rory or Richard want to go to the WRC? It would put it largely into the public domain, why they were fired and how much they were paid.

Did Bakhurst and the board ever think of just dismissing them under a Dismal or under Gross Negligence ? were these options raised?

Seems RTÉ had no negotiating hand? This does sound right.

It's a small community of execs in rte and no doubt in each other's pockets in work, and outside work.

Dublin and it's environs might like to convince the rest of us that's it's a big metropolis but in reality in a city with a large number of people and then an area with a particular set of people. People who live in a whole different world to most regular folk.

Rte seems to breed an arrogant mentality that is disgusting tbh.

They have truly gotten above themselves and I don't think PAC is capable of changing that.

I agree - what's with these publicly funded bodies like FAI and RTE that are exposed to have poor corporate governance and dodgy accounting. They get a good kick up the arse, are told to reform but carry on with some of the same poor corporate governance and dodgy accounting. It seems to be a cultural thing in them, that the leopard can't change it's spots. In cases like this, you begin to think the humane solution is a bullet.

Looks like it..

The whole board should have been sacked ages ago.

Bakhurst also in trouble.

They have lied to the Minister constantly probably because Catherine Martin, who seems like a nice person, is out of her depth and not properly representing the tax payer. Her own position is in question through all of this.

She's completely taking the piss. The coward should be summonsed now.