RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I think it mostly RTE it would catch as it would be considered his nett pay. It's mostly employers that get caught in situations like that.

RTE has been at the self employment stroke for decades. It started with a cohort of highly paid presenter's and was a way to keep pay under control. However in the end it was only a tax advantage to the so called star's. As we see in this case Tubridy side deal protected him from iay cuts for the last ten years. There was no headline ''Tubs earns over half a million from RTE''

People should remember other Faux Pas's by these starts. Remember Brian Dobson giving PR training on how to manage a TV/ radio news interview.

I will be surprised if no other pay deal has this in its T&C's.

If you hear the sound of explosions around the D4 area it'll be union bosses heads exploding.

He is toast, can't see him on RTE again but who knows, he is better to quietly head off and set up a media company work behind the scean or make content programs for the dozens of brittish stations and streaming services. RTE have to look at how other are paid as well.

Yep. RTE engaged in this too

At 21:30. Dan Clancy knew the score back in 2004😅

The annoying thing, for me perhaps at least regarding the TV License, is not the money per se, its that its a tax, on your already taxed income.

In many countries, when you get your pay slip, there are lots of small amounts taken for different things. When I lived abroad, there was a metropolitan tax, which was about 30 quid a month and was to pay for refuse collection and other things that were specific to living within the city confines. A person living in the country, didn't get that tax.

Instead of spending god knows how much on TV License inspectors, they could just add a few euro to everyones tax liability and save everyone a lot of hassle.

The problem is that if it's just coming out of a big pot, then money will just get shovelled at RTE because they will - as we have seen tell lies to pretend they need more money. And they have a big mouthpiece to harange the government with.

With the licence fee, there's more political 'cost' to increase.

If some 'quango' was set up to oversee it, I'd have little confidence it wouldn't suffer industry 'capture' immediately.

Shows how dementedly clueless he is/was, that warped view he had as the toyman who kids looked up to bloody weird.

Having a good research of the issue, I'd say he didn't know the full T and C of his contract and neither did Dee Forbs so they both have to go, it's his management company that needs to be heard from. I don't think he was involved in a scam but failing to read and understand the contract caught them both out. The moral of the story never sign anything with out fully reading every sub clause.

Some of the blame for that lies with deluded parents wearing their creepy matching pyjamas and making an event out of the non event that is the toy show.

Hyping it up for weeks, turning it into a telethon, turning it into a wokefest was all Tubridy though.

His agent should have explained it to him then.

So would I be wrong to assume that RTÉ potentially has being paying agent fees on top of the earning of the top stars ? So for example RTÉ pay someone €200,000 and is reported as €200,000 but potentially RTÉ paid their agent €20,000... meaning that potentially that "star" actually got €220,000?

When did all this start?

We all know there will be certain Angela's out there talking drivel to defend the indefensible but it's the ones in this country who will say "oh isn't this latest scandal in this country appalling" while secretly in the 'system' benefiting financially themselves be it through back handers/theft/fraud/nepotism that are the real problem, enough of these nod and wink type beneficiaries out there everywhere

RTÉ is just another toxic Irish institution rigged for the boys/girls at the top with some of it trickling down to pals/family below that tree, RTÉ is now cemented in Ireland inc. in the same breath as Anglo, FÁS, HSE, FAI etc - the toxic Celtic Tiger never died despite the charade of the austerity/IMF era