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

Not sure why ppl are surprised about the salaries, theyve been in the public domain for years, and plenty here have been complaining about it, maybe the events of the last week magnified it.

And the ppl worried about not paying the license, i havent paid for one since 2007. Left Ireland in 2009, came back in 2014, and never got a tv. Got the threatening letters for a few weeks round 2017, emailed them saying, "piss off, i dont have a tv". Never heard from them since, nor had an inspector at the door.

EDIT: it wasnt an email, it was this form I filled out. Never had a followup to it.

https://www.tvlicence.ie/home/tv-licence-forms.html

They release incorrect figures and it looked like they tried to hide those figures. I don't think they did anything wrong financial, but they lied about the payments.

They could have said that they were all on 100,000 a year TBH, and they could have got away with that for a few years.

This then brings into question the amounts paid to presenters of independently produced shows and if any of them should have been on the top earners list. Claire Byrne IMO is showing this with her statement.

Dee will not attend tomorrow due to "ill health"

Dee Forbes is a coward who is unable to stand over her disgraceful actions that she signed off on and is running scared of being exposed.

Then if she ever does get dragged in front of a committee it'll be the ol' pre-prepared statement to read out and "on legal advice, I'm precluded from making any further comments at this hearing.." 😎

It's crazy, in the UK not even Rupert Murdoch could pull this kinda ****, no bother for the likes of Forbes and John Delaney before her, though

Really bad for RTE if she doesn't show up.

Makes you wonder what she's hiding.

It's 100 percent a conflict of interests and I wonder was this declared at all. She could be on think ice with that one if a curious journalist decides to start digging around which inevitably they will.

What I mean to say is did she personally profit from GAAGO? I don''t think so reading into the detail of the setup. As DG of RTE she was automatically appointed to the board.

Not in relation to GAAGO, a decision would have been made on who should be put on the board of GAAGo RTÉ decided that the DG and Head of Sport should be RTÉ representatives on the board. IMO this is very bad governance / decision making.

DG has overall responsibility to RTÉ, not to any subsidiaries, and decision made by GAAGo should not be on there desk. She/he should only get involved where it is loss making.

Head Of Sport is involved in rights negotiations, by being on the GAAGo it may seem as though he is bidding against himself.

Really Head of Commercial and the Head of Strategy should have been put on the board, to put it at arms length from RTÉ.

A nice little number in fairness for all she done.. Now when it matters she throws the health card on the table.. Try being one paycheck away from the road lady and see how that effects your mental health? , she must be awful fragile entirely, how did she end up in such a responsible position at all??

The Like's of Netflix and BBC are going to headhunt Tubridy. His RTE salary will pale in comparison to want he has the potential to earn

What exactly will they be headhunting him for?

A tell all exposé on how he brought down a publicly funded monopoly?

To deliver a "how not to interview/present" training course?

To reach the high cobwebs with the duster?

The full version of the RTE Player is now up on the Sky apps I see.

An RTÉ statement on the controversial payments to Ryan Tubridy says former DG Dee Forbes was the only RTÉ Executive Board member that had all the information to know that his publically declared earnings were wrong. It also details the involvement of other senior executives.