RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

Unfortunately, When there's a compulsory licence fee paid to RTE for anyone who wants to watch any television even if it is not RTE, then quality in RTE itself inevitably deteriorates over time. This will accelerate when the new broadcasting fee replacing the license comes into force as even those who don't watch TV will have to pay.

A barter 'account ' has nothing to do with the set of Accounts that are audited / disclosed etc

Those accounts are more commonly referred to as the financial statements.

Stop deflecting. Anyone reading this thread can see I've shown you multiple times evidence of two sets of accounts. The RTE Board have said they will bring the barter account within the finance account.

Barter account and finance account? How many accounts is that?

Get a grip. Your mates Tubridy and NK are in deep doo-doo!

Probably too little too late, damage limitation all round..

Mr. Photo Op himself, we’ll see

Were the Tubridy transactions in the barter account known to the Board or finance department before this week?

A simple yes or no will do.

Ah no, that referendum deserved to be rejected as they were over reaching imo.

Having power to call anyone, refuse the possibility of bringing in legal representation while still maintaining this Dail privilege made it a very lob sided proposal.

From past experience of those committees, they don’t exactly stay within the terms of those committees and the only recourse is the Committee of Members Interests…..maybe Angela Kerins legal case will finally be resolved and give the rest of us plebs some recourse from a parliament who can say anything they like and backed up by taxpayers money to keep the status quo.

Is it normal for companies to bounce between auditing companies, or is there anything to be read into the fact Deloitte audited their 2020 accounts and they are now using Grant Thorton?

Ah right, a quick Google returned this.

It is hard to prove. As much as it pains me to say it, performing as agreed in the contract you have with RTE cannot, by definition, be considered disreputable (in the eyes of the organisation).

It was an arrangement made with the total amount in mind, not some yearly agreement - RTE agreed to underwrite the total amount, that isn't written off by some lowly finance guy

I'm struggling to understand the flow of money and credit so perhaps someone can explain what I'm getting wrong. Renault paid sponsorship+X and in exchange for that they got their sponsorship, appearances from Ryan Tubridy, and a credit note to the value of X for advertising. RTE paid X to Ryan Tubridy on top of his declared fee.

It seems to me that this is a terrible deal for RTE, for playing middleman they effectively gave away advertising to the value of X for nothing?

Yes, Alan Kelly made that point very strongly on the news. He said it should be the end of these ‘stars’ working as self employed contractors and that they should all be on the RTE payroll.

Why indeed hasn’t the Revenue acted on this?