RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I'd say, the young bad eggs that tubs used to slate, wearing hoods and covering their faces,all in black, will be Tubs fashion sense for a while

I've seen it in a quite a few walks of life but mainly payroll/accounts controller/bank clerk people.

GOL strikes me as someone who maybe helped herself to a little bit, then a little bit more, then more and more and then it got to the point where it was like a flip it what's the harm. This generosity was extended to friends and family then.

If this was in the US you can be pretty sure the FBI would be in there uprooting the place and seizing devices today.

We haven’t been told who the “clients” are yet so I’m going to call them guests until we do.

I doubt Geraldine o leary et al would be up for going with the news team to cover the Ukraine war even if the news team only go as far as Poland anyway for this. Don't think there are any RTE reporters even in kyiv

Actually the common denominator is that there is no over sight on these institutions, just give them the money and away ya go lads. Also they are loaded up with political cronies as well. What do you expect when the example is coming from the top? You know when management in these places see politicians getting away with passing confidential documents to mates, lying on planning applications, giving their mates nice little contracts because they put up posters, a finance minister with no bank account and claiming he won money on the horses, I could go on. This is why the likes of Dee Forbes and the RTE Management behaved like they do because the see it being done at the top and them getting away with it.

I really thought after the crash that we would have learned or at least government would have and they would have implemented tighter controls and tougher laws to deal with this but nope it has actually gotten a lot worse and still they are paying ridiculous salaries to these people. There should be a pay cap of 100K for people working the public and civil server management like the DG's, and so on. Not one of them should be earning more than the Taoiseach.

Yes the top 100 will be interesting. And we should have that in the coming days they said?

Yes he was excellent.

I heard someone refer to the government's own handling of public sector salaries/payrises and how they couldn't control it either. The example given was Watt.

Mystery over conditions that prompted top civil servant Robert Watt to accept €81,000 pay rise | Independent.ie

Mystery over conditions that prompted top civil servant Robert Watt to accept €81,000 pay rise.

THE conditions that prompted a senior civil servant to justify accepting a controversial €81,000 salary increase remain a mystery.

The Secretary General at the Department of Health, Robert Watt, is getting his full pay of €294,920 a year.

He is the highest-paid civil servant in the country.

The Department of Health confirmed he is now in receipt of his full salary after waiving €81,000 of it less than a year ago.

He temporarily refused the increase he received last April after the Government came under fire for boosting the salary for his role.

Mr Watt said he would continue to waive the raise until the economy began to recover and the unemployment figures fell.

But while it emerged yesterday that he was now getting the extra €81,000, it is unclear for how long he had waived it.

The bould Paddy has now made so many complaints to AGS that have gone nowhere that he must be in danger of a charge of wasting Garda time.

Suspect this will end up somewhere similar. Wrongdoing yes, criminality unlikely.

Paddy has got himself a reputation as an irritable crank. Don't think it will be taken seriously.

However IT DOES NOT mean he is wrong and it should absolutely be taken seriously.