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

seriously…? holy baby jebus,three more gobdaws on the tv…what a time to be alive ☹️

i really wouldnt have a clue who they are….and im guessing we're paying them a shite ton of money?

Based on what Keith Walsh has said, it seems to be the case.

Keith (You can look him up if you don't know who he is) is currently suing RTÉ because they classified him as Self Employed/ A contractor. If what he says is true it sounds like RTÉ basically said to their contractors, here is a contract for €120,000 but rather than confusing things "just invoice us for 10k each month", of course in comes the DSP who look at his wages and think to themselves, while yes he agreed to this great contract in reality because he had a basic monthly wage it makes him staff.

Instead RTÉ should have insisted that Keith bill them per show per month, and because I have too much time I will explain.

Contract stipulates that Keith must do 210 programmes each year (this take into consideration normal holidays of 21 days and the 10 bank holidays, and as this is RTÉ have 19 more because your worth it). So if Keith works 20 shows in a month he bills €11,428.57, but if he only works 14 shows in a month he bills €8,000, and if he is not on the air for a month he doesn't bill them for that month. (that's €571.43 per show).

But because RTÉ wanted the easy life all contractors bill RTÉ by dividing the total contract amount by 12, sending in an even invoice monthly.

Then you have poor auld Joe Duffy who stated he didn't get sick pay when he was off sick, but you can be guaranteed Joe billed as normal.

Of course I say "guaranteed" but this is all hypothetical.

Barter account shenanigans :)

They used the boat for 2fm party \ hospitality events iirc.

RTÉ has claimed it was an “editorial” decision to host a number of 2FM parties on boats owned by presenter Doireann Garrihy’s family business. Dublin Bay Cruises – which has hosted listener parties and birthday parties for the 2FM breakfast show – was never charged for the events. RTÉ said the parties were not viewed as “formal promotions” for the cruise company, and so no charge applied.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/editorial-decision-to-have-2fm-parties-on-boats-owned-by-doireann-garrihys-family/a2106634431.html

Even though I knew the background (somewhat obviously, or I wouldn't have made the jibe!) but even reading about it again now, I am shaking my head in wonderment that RTÉ thought they could get away with such shite. Oh, and they did get away with it!

Is Minister Martin doing anything at all anymore?

This presupposes that she used to do something - I'm struggling to think of anything; other than kick the can down the road.

wild handy that…have that crowd any bigger boats?get everyone in rte to go on a cruise and maybe either the us/russian/english navy would oblige by having a submarine handy and fire a few torpedos at it…i know,i know,fantasy but a lad can dream!

@mountai you may be getting her mixed up with Moya Doherty

Will end the same way as the governance reviews in the sporting sector - Sport Ireland, FAI etc i.e. absolutely nothing will be done and things will continue as before.

Its interesting that both the media and sport areas that the Department oversees are basketcase. Makes you wonder if the tourism etc parts of the department are similar?

Why do RTE keep referring to their staff meetings as town halls?

Cringey given that it's not a town and it's held up by public money.

No one has been made redundant.

Emma O'Kelly meanwhile hasn't filed a report for weeks. She does nothing.

And "Leaning In" - handy if you're on the RTE boat

Make the pages soft, Sean, so I can put it on the wire up in the dunny’