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

Technically it's a license for having a TV. Do with it as you please.

Those going to court have had many opportunities to buy a licence or pay the fine before jail comes into the picture. As I understand it it's a quick visit anyway.

Yes but the vast bulk of it goes to fund RTE! We all can see how this has been handled..

So only 20 of 26 gave permission for their name to be released. Are we allowed speculate who the other six are?

1. Person 1 (Ms. Susan Ahern, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member)
2. Person 2 (Mr. Richard Collins, CFO of RTÉ and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
3. Person 3 (Mr. Rory Coveney, Director of Strategy)
4. Person 4 (Ms. Eimear Cusack, Director of Human Resources)
5. Person 5
6. Person 6 (Mr. Julian Erskine, External Consultant)
7. Person 7
8. Person 8 (Mr. David Harvey, Board of Director Member)
9. Person 9 (Mr. Daire Hickey, Board of Director Member and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
10. Person 10 (Mr. Jim Jennings, Director of Content)
11. Person 11 (Mr. Ian Kehoe, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
12. Person 12 (Ms. Deborah Kelleher, Board of Director Member)
13. Person 13 (Mr. Adrian Lynch, Director of Audience Channels Marketing in RTÉ)
14. Person 14 (Mr. PJ Mathews, Board of Director Member)
15. Person 15
16. Person 16 (Ms. Paula Mullooly, Director of Legal Affairs and Group Secretary)
17. Person 17
18. Person 18 (Mr. Connor Murphy, Board of Director Member, and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
19. Person 19
20. Person 20 (Ms. Anne O’Leary, Board of Director Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee)
21. Person 21 (Ms. Geraldine O’Leary, Director of Commercial and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
22. Person 22
23. Person 23 (Mr. Jonathan Ruane, Board of Director Member)
24. Person 24 (Mr. Robert Shortt, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member)
25. Person 25 (Mr. Richard Waghorn, Director of Operations, Transformation & Technology)
26. Person 26 (Ms. Moya Doherty, Chair of the RTÉ Board until November 2022).

140 million for the executives to **** on top of the license paying public with sicknotes,140 euro is too much.

Really? What make and model are they? Do they have Freeview built in or a satellite tuner. I have a 13 year old TV with Saorview from Walker.

Plus nowadays, you could have a family of 4, 4 phones, 4 tablets, 4 laptops, all accessing RTE content but no TV so no license.

There are students up and down the country whose student accomodation isn't big enough to fit a TV in, so they watch the Sunday Game or whatever on their phone. No TV, so no License.

I'm looking to upgrade my digital TV package and Sky are pushing Sky Stream which looks to be the future. No cable connection, no satelite, just stream it, which means you could have a monitor plugged into the sky box not a television, so no TV license required, but you can watch RTE.

The one im "looking" at right now is a Toshiba, I bought it for my dad for his 70th so its 16 years old. It has a Sky box plugged into it. No freeview.

I am because I am looking about this from the point of view of actual public service broadcasting not RTÉ.

As I say, you need to fix RTÉ before you change the way we pay for public service broadcasting. My preference is to split RTÉ, and to get rid of the company completely. But any new or existing public service broadcaster won't get very far with 140m, on top of paying for local media and broadcast services.

Who watches or listens, not many people under fifty that I know anyway, don't get me started on tg4 , just pissing millions away with jobs for friends and relatives,sink or swim,if they can produce good shows efficiently they will get revenue,less would be more not the more money you are suggesting.

Whats wrong with TG4? By all accounts, they appear to be a well run organisation who produce quality programming for an agreed budget. If RTE cut their spend on programming/flipflops/agencies to match their budget, they wouldn't be in this mess. Instead it's spend beyond their means and look for more.

I don't think it's a coincidence that three of the first four letters in your username spell rte ....

So this is what your TV License is paying for ... Loreal moments:

Not cheap i would say ..

Says it all, really. Speaks volumes whilst they thumb their noses

There's a whole Wayne's World vibe there. Dee's World. Party time! Excellent! :)

Regards...jmcc

Going by media coverage, it seems that the current government seems to be on course to do something about the funding of public-service broadcasting before the next general election.

"Who watches or listens, not many people under fifty that I know anyway..."

This is the elephant in the room that seems to be completely ignored. Younger people are watching significantly less TV than older generations.

From a recent Ofcom report in the UK.

Broadcast TV is in serious decline, advertising revenue will start to decline as well.

RTE are increasingly going to want viewers who don't use their services, to fork out more and more through licence fees to keep them afloat.

Once the licence fee fee is replaced with a universal charge or exchequer funding, then RTE becomes free to drop quality and skimp on production values knowing that people can't walk away from them.

Thoughts and prayers for Dee Forbes. Hope she recovers from her long and debilitating illness.

I don’t see the point of today’s committee. Most broadcasts are already outlinjngbwhstvRTE members will say. It’s grandstanding for the committee TDs ‘in an election year’ and they’re still ‘seeking advice’ on getting those I’ll executives well enough to attend.

So not only are RTE pissing away iur money but now this committee is as well. Not a bit will happen after today’s hearing. A diligent person would have expected a sudden outbreak of illness after the hearings last June and would have put measures in place to counteract that by now. So, really, a massive waste of time and money all round and we’re somehow expected to not realise we’re ultimately footing the bill for all this.

SF are proposing not only to end the TV licence going forward, but an amnesty for anyone who hasn't paid

This is going to lead to a complete collapse of RTE's income. Perhaps intentional as there is certainly no love lost there.

They're comparing it to water charges, but not only were those who didn't pay let off the hook, those who had paid were refunded. There's no feckin' way anyone who's paid their TV licence is getting refunded.

This whole RTE debacle is beyond silly at this point. Many of the former board members are taking us for fools. This toothless Oireachtas committee is only faffing about now. The government need to do a lot more and the Gardai/Revenue should be involved. Minister Martin has done nothing.