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

She's not the boss of the DG.. OK fair enough.

But given there IS no Chair now, surely he is now directly accountable to her in the interim?

Or is the DG now essentially unsupervised?

She's still dodging the "did you have confidence in her" question.

She's either hopelessly incompetent and naive, or she thinks she's cleverer than she is because this "I did all I could not to say I'd no confidence in her" line isn't washing.

And still not one inkling of accountability on her part - all someone else's fault or responsibility.

It's a pathetic performance from the minister. For a minister in charge of media, all she can do is rely on her rehearsed lines.

She needs to go, but she won't.

She's ridiculously under-qualified for the post and she's an exceptionally poor communicator (which is ironic given her ministry).

But then, she's a Green Party TD who was appointed to the post as part of political negotiations rather than ability or suitability. She is presumably in Government to fight her ideological cause on the environment, not deal with broadcasting, RTE mismanagement and scandal.

She shouldn't be there in the first place.

Byrne did elicit something interesting. So Siun indicated she was going to resign if the minister sent her this letter. Minister then wanted to let the dust settle in case the chair acted rashly by saying that but she went on TV and refused to express confidence, which is effective dismissing her.

Something which warranted a face to face meeting yet she sacked her on TV. Incredible.

She is completely useless as not only a Minister but a public representative in general.

Everything is done by someone else. She has no responsibility (in her mind anyway) and limited knowledge of what's going on until she reads it in the paper or this sort of mess emerges.

Even then there's no notion of her being in any way accountable for the actions or mistakes of her staff, advisors or others under the remit of her Department.

What's worse is that she will almost certainly survive this politically because like her appointment in the first place, she's just making up the coalition numbers and keeping the Greens happy.

It's absolutely ridiculous.