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

Everyone knows now that Martin was not prepared to grasp the nettle in RTE. The chair was even surprised at how hands off she was. How is Martin still minister?

Yes and Siun is chair since November 2022. 15 months. 8 months in crisis mode. Moya was chair a lot longer. 8 years. And Moya is nowhere to be seen.

Not sure how you arrived at making a Boris Johnson comparison here.

weird for her to remark that its the SG who acts for the minister?

Having a Big4 accountant in there might put some sense on their finances.

Oops. I stand corrected.

Nobody resigns from jobs lije them without a package whether in the public or private sector. Most would have part of a contract term left and a non compete clause to be factored in as well. Damage to there reputation when dealing with a Dail committee will have been factored in as well.

Richard Colins is a widower with children so he was fully entitled to bargain hard.

Everybody knew they would have to get packages to get them to leave.

The problem I would have woukd be the likes of packages for Gearldine O'Leary who got a redundancy package and was replaced and that was done on Moya Doherty's watch, and the business relationship between Dee Forbes and Noel Kelly, where he seemed to be able to dictate who got what

She should not need to anybody that thinks that intelligent people resigned from well paying jobs without a package are idiots.

O'Leary retired with no package, Breeda O'Keefe got some form of redundancy payment.

I presume those that retire get a lump sum in RTE though.

For which house, she comes across as a " let them eat cake" individual.

Wasthis advertised on public jobs.ie?

Far from it. She has challenged the veracity of Martin's claims before a committee. There is now a request for Martin to answer questions in the Dail. This is serious stuff.

Regards...jmcc

Seems to me that Minister Martin took out the easiest target thinking that that would be the end of it.....looks like she picked the wrong person to sacrifice....fair play to Siún for biting back....she was humiliated on tv......really hope she gives an interview.

The comment from Ni Raghallaigh are very damaging to Martin and show that she was a hands-off minister who relied upon her staff to keep her informed rather than having meetings with Ni Raghallaigh. Martin made all these claims before the committee. There are calls for Martin to appear before the Dail to answer questions on this. It is no longer about the RTE exit packages. It is now about a minister potentially misleading an Oireachtas committee.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0305/1435988-rte-martin/

Regards...jmcc

Bet he has a yacht 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I agree with this except for maybe Aine O'Leary, think she is the part time risk manager that was the one that noticed the irregularities and called in the auditors this time last year just before this thing blew up. I'm not too sure if she got to party like the rest of them

That whole Dee Forbes management team seems to have been an nest of parasites, not sure if she appointed them all or inherited some and that is just the way things were done. The one who has really annoyed me is Brenda O'Keefe and her carry on with the exit package that she designed and then the way that she came to the committee meeting threw Collins under the bus when he inherited the mess from her and then said she wouldn't attend anymore and was sending messages to others at the meetings telling them what to say. I think if I was working anywhere near her, I'd need to wear a stab vest to stop from getting a knife in the back.

When Siun use the word "traduce" I knew the plan was to talk down to us.

It's an attempt to bog down rte deceptions in a quagmire, but the public are reminded daily that if they have a tv they are legally bound to fund unaccountability.

Those of us with long enough memories haven't forgot how Pat Kenny fought to keep his fee private knowledge.

If the Shinners get in we might see some proper reform of RTE.

Cant see Leo and co doing anything meaningful as some of the employees seem to have political connections .

None of these people are civil servants. These are people working for state agencies - much the same as RTE. As stated earlier, exit packages on resignation do not exist in the civil service. That RTE is not the only state agency doing so does not make it right.

I think that sh!show could be run on one third of its current budget. It is devoid of originality and always was. And the nepotism of course has been mentioned. Whatever the latest fad is , they will go with it. Nothing screams this like their ridiculous brainstorm pieces on the RTE website. Where Ireland's fruit juice drinkers and polyamory advocates get their indulgences boosted at the license payers expense.

I always thought the nepotism was overstated until I heard an interview/report a few years ago on drive time with a WIT academic about a regional economics report. The report after that was introduced by Abie Philbin Bowman. I have seen Abie on the comedy circuit and his biggest fan is Abie Philbin Bowman.I would be astonished if he was hired on the back of his own talent. Not long before that Frank MacNamara was plugging his son on the LLS.

The whole thing needs to be stripped down to the core and there needs to be a salary cap of around 175k.

There is enough competent regional journalists to put on a type of rotation with regard to presenting programming.

Let's hope CM's political career dies the death of a thousand cuts. That will be worth the license fee for 2024 at least.

Things just went badly wrong for the golden circle.

Regards...jmcc