Your line is weak but your point is strong: Liveline from 10th January

Atlantic Dawn

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Just home, missed the release.

Ffs.

I’ll comment tomorrow. Exhausted now.

When you hadn't posted by 6pm today in relation to the fees/wages I was about to contact Premier Dairies to get you listed on the milk bottles as a missing person so to speak.

TheHomeService

TheHomeService wrote: »

To be honest, I don't care how much an employee of a private sector company is paid in this context.

The real problem with the pay for Tubridy, Duffy, Darcy, Finucane, et al is that we all pony up for it.

To release those numbers today, in an attempt to bury bad news is truly, truly shameful.

Claire Byrne earns half of what Tubridy does. Let that sink in. Joe earns 400k for six hours work a week.

These numbers are shameful. And I won't be buying a tv licence until they get their house in order.

I want to know what Damien O'Reilly or Katie Hannon earn. Probably about 40 k. If they can stand in for Joe, is he really worth 10 times their salary?

2smiggy

Expunge wrote: »

If Hamilton has dropped out of the top 10 on 192,000, can you imagine some of the fees paid to some of the cheerfully useless ****ers from number 11 to 40 on the list?

I have seen people on here say that there is a long list not far outside the top ten money. I'd be interested to see 1-200 , no need to give names, just roles and what they are getting paid. I'd imagine it is shocking.

Brendan Bendar

Deleted User wrote: »

Claire Byrne earns half of what Tubridy does. Let that sink in. Joe earns 400k for six hours work a week.

These numbers are shameful. And I won't be buying a tv licence until they get their house in order.

I want to know what Damien O'Reilly or Katie Hannon earn. Probably about 40 k. If they can stand in for Joe, is he really worth 10 times their salary?

40k.....!

You could triple that with no change. :eek:

Expunge

If the TD's at the Oireachtas Committee which deals with RTE - Communications I think- could just ask a few more relevant questions, we might get somewhere.

Release pay/fees details from numbers 11 to, say 50.

Release a cost/benefit analysis on Tubridy, D'Arcy and Duffy:
Income from ads, sponsorship & promotion for their shows for 17, 18, 19 minus "fees" (and other production costs) for 17,18, and 19.*

RTE keep telling us that the income from these stars far outweighs the cost. Great, show us!

If at least one TD on that committee had the cop on and persistence to take this line with Dee Forbes and not be fobbed with 'commercial confidentiality', we might get somewhere with this scandal.

*Better still get an outside, independent firm to do it.

ButtersSuki

Deleted User wrote: »

Claire Byrne earns half of what Tubridy does. Let that sink in. Joe earns 400k for six hours work a week.

These numbers are shameful. And I won't be buying a tv licence until they get their house in order.

I want to know what Damien O'Reilly or Katie Hannon earn. Probably about 40 k. If they can stand in for Joe, is he really worth 10 times their salary?

Not a chance. As I've posited previously, as Mary Wilson is No. 10 at €196,961 I would suspect that earners No. 11 - 300 are on circa €195k.

ButtersSuki

Expunge wrote: »

If the TD's at the Oireachtas Committee which deals with RTE - Communications I think- could just ask a few more relevant questions, we might get somewhere.

Release pay/fees details from numbers 11 to, say 50.

Release a cost/benefit analysis on Tubridy, D'Arcy and Duffy:
Income from ads, sponsorship & promotion for their shows for 17, 18, 19 minus "fees" (and other production costs) for 17,18, and 19.*

RTE keep telling us that the income from these stars far outweighs the cost. Great, show us!

If at least one TD on that committee had the cop on and persistence to take this line with Dee Forbes and not be fobbed with 'commercial confidentiality', we might get somewhere with this scandal.

*Better still get an outside, independent firm to do it.

Advertising on Lahv Lahn is mostly comprised of "here's what's coming up on Ray D'Arcy", ads for the Orchestra(s), and other RTE shows.

Not a chance that show is washing it's face of Duffy's fees alone, before you include the researchers, producers and other crew etc. and the outrageous costs and fees associated with FunnyFryday.

TheHomeService

I still think there are serious questions to be asked about the use of tax efficient contractor arrangements for the top earners.

Imagine the outcry if Tony Holohan or Paul Reid were invoicing instead of being on payroll?

ButtersSuki

TheHomeService wrote: »

I still think there are serious questions to be asked about the use of tax efficient contractor arrangements for the top earners.

Imagine the outcry if Tony Holohan or Paul Reid were invoicing instead of being on payroll?

Revenue have long said they were going to look into this, but being Ireland they haven't bothered their h*les.

There's two aspect here that bother me:
1. These contractors work almost and in most cases exclusively for RTE. They are in effect full-time employees getting the benefits of a tax regime designed for companies, which again Revenue said they would examine.
2. These companies are effectively one man or woman operations - which is entirely against the spirit of the law and something again which Revenue have for years said they will crack down on.

Expunge

Oireachtas Committee on Media etc.
Surely one of these TDs or Senators could ask a few proper searching questions of RTE on the "Fees" scandal
Mattie McGrath anyone?

Committee membership
Deputies
Ciarán Cannon
Fine Gael

Alan Dillon
Fine Gael

Peter Fitzpatrick
Independent

Brendan Griffin
Fine Gael

Mattie McGrath
Independent

Imelda Munster
Sinn Féin

Johnny Mythen
Sinn Féin

Christopher O'Sullivan
Fianna Fáil

Niamh Smyth - Chair
Fianna Fáil

Senators
Malcolm Byrne
Fianna Fáil

Micheál Carrigy
Fine Gael

Shane Cassells
Fianna Fáil

Annie Hoey
Labour Party

Fintan Warfield
Sinn Féin

Dublin Mint Office ad popped up here on my iPhone

ButtersSuki

Will Herr Duffy have a carefully and strategically times day off twoday so to speak? Normally he takes a little break-een for a few days following the release of the fees so to speak..............

dvcireland

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Will Herr Duffy have a carefully and strategically times day off twoday so to speak? Normally he takes a little break-een for a few days following the release of the fees so to speak..............

duze he get paid by the hour ? does he count days off for research as working daze?

golondrinas

So the “Stars bring in way more than the cost of their shows.”

My analogy: I’m the best car salesman in the garage. Bring in loads of dosh. The rest are below average, the mechanics, office staff etc,etc must be paid. The business is hemoraging cash like a sieve. Where does the owner go to prop up the Business. Answers on a postcard ,please.

P.S. They are a public service = not good enough. They pick their woke topics very very carefully. Not always what the general public want. Their fascination with solving Americas problems . Soft because we have no control over it.

ButtersSuki

dvcireland wrote: »

duze he get paid by the hour ? does he count days off for research as working daze?

Reasearch? On Da Lahv Lahn?
:pac:

ButtersSuki

21/21/21 sez he. 21 months in a year now.

ButtersSuki

Wat colour were de graphs?

Red Fred

Today 21-21-21-21:

More mudder and baby home misery

Being read from the altar [Clip from yesterday]

Atlantic Dawn

T'day...
Mother & Baby homes.

Odyssey 2005

He's back on his hobby horse.

Odyssey 2005

Red Fred wrote: »

Today 21-21-21-21:

More mudder and baby home misery

Being read from the altar [Clip from yesterday]

I'm surprised he didn't say she was checked from the altar.

Probably checked behind it.

Odyssey 2005

golondrinas wrote: »

So the “Stars bring in way more than the cost of their shows.”

My analogy: I’m the best car salesman in the garage. Bring in loads of dosh. The rest are below average, the mechanics, office staff etc,etc must be paid. The business is hemoraging cash like a sieve. Where does the owner go to prop up the Business. Answers on a postcard ,please.

P.S. They are a public service = not good enough. They pick their woke topics very very carefully. Not always what the general public want. Their fascination with solving Americas problems . Soft because we have no control over it.

Avoiding the 81 k wage increase to the HSE fooker like the plague

PieOhMy

Joe bold as brass shows up to 'earn' his crust.

Pure gibberish trying to make some point.
Liveline ironically pointing out error in the mudder and baby report.
Meaningless graphs.
'Co-leen o cigly' clip from yesterday.
Another effort at making a point just turned in to a stream of stammering confused words.

Joe Duffy = Tax avoider as opposed to the firm run by his friend Sammy Sausages which is a tax evador. I.e cheating the state out of tax revenue that could go to deserving sectors (but let's be honest would just be wasted)

He's writing a catalogue buke about De Forgotten Chislers of de Babby Homes, don't you know. Getting all de research done by de researchers of de show, buke in de making, to be signed by Joe Duffy and printed oversees and heavily promoted for de remainder of his career, again, using de platform of de show. Win, win, win. The more he drags this out and revisits it, de more readymade material for de buke.

PieOhMy

Hard to believe but they are warming up for liveline on the news now. Talking about bereavement and grief and funerals in times of covid. The reporter even has a Joe Duffy style sad voice! Rte = perverse.

ButtersSuki

PieOhMy wrote: »

Hard to believe but they are warming up for liveline on the news now. Talking about bereavement and grief and funerals in times of covid. The reporter even has a Joe Duffy style sad voice! Rte = perverse.

Wat colour was de hearse?

Odyssey 2005

Poor aul dobbo is still trying to cast down the podcasts

dvcireland

Denny House ? known to the local whackers as The rasher gaff?

Mena Mitty

PieOhMy wrote: »

Hard to believe but they are warming up for liveline on the news now. Talking about bereavement and grief and funerals in times of covid. The reporter even has a Joe Duffy style sad voice! Rte = perverse.

Did you catch Dobbo's slip of the tongue sotospeak.

'You can downcast the podcast' *lol*

cozar

ffs how long more is this topic going to go on for ?

I wasn't born, I gave birth.

Odyssey 2005

Researcher going to get a kicking

ButtersSuki

I don't know if I can listen to this today.

What is he (Joe) excepting a report to say - every single word by every person who participated in the research?

TheHomeService

Feck this, I'm out.

Roger_007

Denny House.............were they fed exclusively on sausages?

ButtersSuki

cozar wrote: »

ffs how long more is this topic going to go on for ?

December.....2029

BPKS

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

He's back on his hobby horse.

Nice and handy to deflect from the salaries announced yesterday.

Well done Joe, well done, well done.

Expect more of this for another week.

I'm off to a podcast.

gmisk

"What home were you born in?"

"I wasn't born in a home"

It's why Joe gets the big bucks!

fritzelly

This stuff again, can he not find some yank to speak to today

ButtersSuki

TheHomeService wrote: »

Feck this, I'm out.

Can I come with you?

dvcireland

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

When you hadn't posted by 6pm today in relation to the fees/wages I was about to contact Premier Dairies to get you listed on the milk bottles as a missing person so to speak.

dere was a toime when they did not employ the catholikcks

gmisk

Is it this misery yet again?!
Is there no other topics they can move onto?

Dunboyne, dat was the one where de aircraft made a forced landing on a mission to get a cheaper fill of fuel.

withless

De War On Chaaarts.

Odyssey 2005

Roger_007 wrote: »

Denny House.............were they fed exclusively on sausages?

That's why they were in there :eek:

withless

The Joe Duffy Show today.

ButtersSuki

De charts and graphs do be meaningless so to speak.

I'd bet my last euro he doesn't understand half of them, and if Joe doesn't understand something it means it's useless. :rolleyes:

dvcireland

Celebrity Mastermind

Joseph Duffy Specialist Topic, udder peeples misery

Losty Dublin

Roger_007 wrote: »

Denny House.............were they fed exclusively on sausages?

No, the head nun there was Rolf Harris.

ButtersSuki

"Dunne Bine"