RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

And he's still being paid while he's off even though he's meant to be a contractor!!!!!

Why would he?

This country stumbles from scandal to scandal.

Remember John Delaney and the FAI scandal?

Takes a while to remember doesn’t it?

Its because we have become immune to the whole blatant corruption and total disregard for us ordinary plebs.

Makes you wonder what else is going on in this country us eejits have no idea of.

Id start with the asylum/IPA gravy train we have no choice in at the moment…..

The problem here is nothing will happen to the "talents" contracts until they are up. That could be 2 or 3 years down the road, than there is the delay in publishing those figures because of "commercial sensitivities" This will drag on for years. One of the first thing the new DG/board should do is to publish up to date figures annually.

I really doubt this will pass but it will be interesting to see what will happen with it.... a bill is being brought forward by Senator Rónán Mullen next Wednesday which would limit the amount that RTÉ can pay to the same amount as a minister’s salary, €195,161.

I cannot link yet as I am not around long enough for boards.

There are indeed some odd perceptions of the great, charitable Tubridy machine on here. Mainly one poster. Regarding his pay cut in 2012 =>

Ryan Tubridy was asked to take a 10% pay cut in 2009. [During a global economic crisis no less].

From The Mirror - Feb 3 2009 "RYAN: I'M NOT READY TO TAKE A PAY CUT; 'Legal reasons' blamed."

It seems, that the only way to get him to take a 31% pay cut by 2012, was to have more than doubled his salary beforehand. So that in 2013 [2012 figures]:

From the Journal March 27 2013 - "Tubridy, Finucane and Duffy take pay cuts as RTÉ reveals stars' salaries"

In the next five years his contract was negotiated again. Again while RTÉ were still very much in financial difficulty. It is no wonder that they thought the secret payments wouldn't be a problem, they thought that they successfully or they seem to have actually, pulled the wool over everyone's eyes the last time. RTÉ seem to have thought that "it's objective of cutting pay by at least 30 percent since 2008" was achieved by increasing it by €149,000 since 2009 (after a massive payout the year(s) before).

He did take up the LLS in 2009, but even with that factored in, the 'pay cut' is moot. Nobody should be defending any of them. 

Tubridy every now and then still croaking about "charity" and making donations to St VDeP, So what? In many ways that is just adding insult to injury. After he took the massive payments that we paid for, he could just give it away? We could have done that ourselves.

They did not care that RTÉ were and are in a lot of financial difficulty. The Licence fee had gone up, people were struggling to pay it and being brought to court. If Tubridy were to never work in Montorose again, he would not be 'sacked' by RTÉ. He made a point of not being employed by them.

He should just not get a new contract. Nobody has explained why he is being paid currently with no contract, or suspended. Every single NKM 'talent' should have their contract revised. The RTÉ board should all be axed without exception. The 'talent' wages should be capped at €200,000 and I am being very generous there.

The crap about them being their own company and signing off on their contracts as ceo and pretending that they don't know what was negotiated has to stop too.

I would be very interested to know how much e.g. Dermot Bannon was paid for each appearance on the LLS or was he doing it gratis? Not that it could ever be considered gratis, as it boosted his persona and helped get him the contract with Volvo.

Someone doesn't understand what doxxing means

I'm not sure if this has been posted before, I might well have missed it...

"Ryan Tubridy will be compelled to testify before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee, Chair Brian Stanley has confirmed."

“I will be proposing to the Committee that we seek Dee Forbes - we’ve already agreed to that by the way,” he told The Hard Shoulder. 

“The Committee members want to see Ryan Tubridy in; they do want to see Noel Kelly, his [Mr Tubridy’s] agent and Jim Jennings, the Head of Content at RTÉ who is out due to illness at the moment.” 

So it looks like it's going to happen

No I'm not getting Rickrolled - but share if you please

Getbrid of the late late. It's gone well past it's use.

Make everyone in rte an employee and start paying realistic salaries to these presenters

They aren't 'talents'. What a shi#e word to use for a number of overpaid people who believe their own hype.

Rte should cut Al ties with NK ad his agency.

No one agency should have ever been allowed to control so much.

How the people who 'run' rte managed to get their jobs is beyond me. They're incompetent head-in-the-sand jackasses who would have been fired by now in a country that was run by a competent government.

I aint reading all that but point to the bit where they can forciibly make someone say something

Oh would you ever go away - lasted 5 seconds of that rubbish

Yes, why would they want to incriminate themselves further like Collins did - plead the 5th if you like

PAC can get records of public spending entities, like Alan Kelly demanded 20 years of the slush fund records but unless there is criminal proceedings unfortunately NK and RT are in the clear as far as answering questions etc

NK and RT's reputation is in the tatters I would think and hope at this point - they've nothing left to lose

Ah, it’s the Old Etonians you have to watch out for, particularly the Bullngdon Bullies. Awful bunch of tossers