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

And that will solve the problem of RTÉ :) happy days.

AFAIR I think somebody suggest that An Post would be given a subvention from the government on the lose of the collection of the licence fee.

The issue of An Post is a very political issue, that no one thinks about.

If any have I'd not be surprised that many returned after a year or two.

The government / legislator could decide : -

1. Move NCO and lyric over to the NCH (saving RTÉ €14M)
2. Move RnaG over to TG4 (saving RTÉ €10M)
3. Fund the Sound and Vision Fund from the Exchequer (giving RTÉ back €8M per year)
4. Create a new media fund outside the Licence Fee from the Exchequer, which would not be available to RTÉ or TG4.
5. Continue to fund RTÉ thought the licence fee

Completely, at any at time over the last 4 budgets she could have increase the licence fee, she could even have ensure that the DSP paid the full amount of each of the free licences (I believe they still only give a percentage). In away all of the ministers since 2011 are lucky they didn't increase the licence fee, because we know that RTÉ would still have been asking for more money and would still have done what they did. (Perhaps they would have got away with it?)

An Post are in serious trouble after it was revealed that they class Postmasters as self employed. Postmaster barely make a living as they incur a lot of costs such as rent and rates. More info below.

Two payments of €150K to Tubs.

What is the point of a report with recommendations to the board ? Not rules, so just ignore and move on. Tubs scandal was always just the tip of the iceberg. Corporate governance was and still is non existent.

Allowances to all 760 staff was published earlier but I can't find it now. Was about €5100 per person of allowances. I felt it was a bit of averaging out the bad number by publishing the staff number.

A barter account designed to hide money and payments. It's acted as a slush fund and still nobody is accountable.

The place needs a major enforced deep cut taken out of their hands on the same basis as a bankruptcy.

I don't think the Revenue is going to have an easy time collecting a Broadcasting charge.

Do the revenue have details about people living in local authority housing? How are they going to chase after this group?

What about rented accommodation with multiple PAYE workers, who do they pick to pay this charge?

A barter account designed to hide money and payments. It's acted as a slush fund and still nobody is accountable.

Or has the report puts it

We have found no valid basis for these transactions to have been paid through the barter account, as the payments were not aligned to the purpose of the barter account as described to us by interviewees

as state on pages 12, 39, 40 and 52

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/292476/e8122e4f-374a-4513-b369-a6b11d9ca35b.pdf#page=null