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

Even the OAPs find if difficult to see anything worthwhile, I worry about my Mam and Dad who are on Repeats of Heartbeat for the last 10 years, I wish VMTV would at least repeat Doc Martin.

It's also due to content across their services the CnaM seem to forget that RTÉ has an online streaming service. But even it suggests that RTÉ aren't pick viewers up there.

As for their Home grown podcasts are they really bring in audiences?

I was living with my father up until about 2 years ago. His main hobby was watching TV, and his go-to TV programs/channels were:

• CNN/Sky News
• The Chase
• Death in Paradise
• Michael Portillo riding around on a train
• Older comedies e.g. Only Fools, Porridge, Yes Minister

The only RTE thing he would watch was Prime Time or if Rugby was on RTE he'd watch that.

I don't think we will ever hear from Dee Forbes. She was given a get out of jail free card hy the board of RTE when they accepted her resignation.

Yes this is true, but as floppybit says the Board allowed her to go before she could be compelled to attend the oireachtas committee, there was still time to have her take questions.

What we are saying is that as DG she would have had to have gone to the Committee, she was still in place as DG until her resignation which the board accepted before the Committee had time to bring her in. Though it would have only given them a week, she'd had her leaving due the Friday before they accepted her resignation.

I think you are still contracted if you are on annual leave, you haven't actually left the company, that is if she was on annual leave.

Pretty much what KB4 said when he was asked in Jim Jennings should coming into the committee to provide some information. Sure what more would there be to find out? and without saying it It would really be only to annoy me if he where to appear.

That should be standard In all RTE mid - senior level management. Especially those involved in decision making and management of the momey.

Broadcasting Act 2009

92.— (1) In this section “Committee” means a Committee appointed by either House of the Oireachtas or jointly by both Houses of the Oireachtas (other than the Committee on Members’ Interests of Dáil Éireann or the Committee on Members’ Interests of Seanad Éireann) or a subcommittee of such a Committee.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), a director general shall, at the request in writing of a Committee, attend before it to give account for the general administration of his or her corporation.

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2009/act/18/section/92/enacted/en/html

Perhaps she could have got out of it by suggesting it might come before a tribunal!

(4) A director general or chairperson shall not be required to give account for, or represent the views of the board of his or her corporation in respect of, any matter which is or has been or may at a future time be the subject of proceedings before a court or tribunal in the State.

We're talking post resignation, so she wasn't DG anymore.

Secretary Generals of Government Departments

We where talk about her before she resigned and before the resignation was excepted. I took for granted that she didn't have to appear in the Dail following the acceptance of her resignation by the board, as I had said the Oireachtas committee even then really only had a week or 2 to call her as her term was due to finish, she'd had going away drinks the Friday before everything blew up.

She actually didn't have to feign illness she simple could have said I have made everything clear in my resignation letter, but I am sure herself and Jimbo will get a doctor's note if asked to attend by the committee rather than just saying "I have nothing further to add".

Dee Forbes thinks its outmoded also she wanted direct funding from the exchequer, would you be happy with that?

But it won't change RTÉ.

Why are their higher rates of evasion than ever before?

Why should tax payers bail RTÉ out of the mess they created?

What happens when there is a downturn should its funding be decrease in line with other areas of spending?

We need public service broadcasting but do we need RTÉ?

Where are you seeing these changes? Are you now watching RTÉ due to these changes?