RTE isn't the only state body with entitlement, nepotism and freeloaders.

Ireland is rated quite highly on most lists / indexes that measure or interpret levels of corruption. ‘Transparency International’ which compiles and operates a list called Corruption Perceptions Index… has Ireland at number 13 in the world, as in they believe Ireland is the 13th most corrupt country in the world…. Now such lists can’t be considered absolute in their accuracy given the nature of corruption… underhanded, under the table etc…but it’s certainly indicative of how we are viewed… and what measuring can be applied has us up there with the worst.

a time ago I worked for another state owned company….

One individual there was managing his own wife ffs. He is still working there, her I don’t know.

another manager whilst not managing her husband directly, was in an adjoining department that interacted and overlapped regularly and certainly would have had influence if she’d needed to use it.. those are just two examples, there were husbands / wives, siblings all over the gaff….

Families working together in the public sector isn’t an issue. It’s the hiring process were public organisations hiring decision are based family relationships rather then best person for the job. The issue can’t happen in the civil service or HSE as it largely all centralised recruitment, but for other public bodies and Sec 38 it’s the wild west, with interconnect family’s making up an sizable portion of staff in some organisations.

It is far from it. If you bothered to read the page with said list on it, you would understand said numbering system.

The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Score - Country- Rank

• 90 - Denmark- 1
• 87 - Finland - 2
• 87 - New Zealand -2
• 84 - Norway - 4
• 83 - Singapore - 5
• 83 - Sweden - 5
• 82 - Switzerland - 7
• 80 - Netherlands - 8
• 79 - Germany - 9
• 77 - Ireland - 10

A higher score means very clean. A lower score means highly corrupt. In what world do you think Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Singapore and Ireland are more corrupt than Somalia (score - 12, rank 180), South Sudan/Syria (Score 13, rank 178), Libya (Score 17, Rank 171)?

Fcukin nepotism with the farmers too. Ba5tards leaving their farms to their children. It's an outrage I tell you.

We would be one of the least corrupt countries in the world, by some margin.

That doesn't mean it is all perfect, just measurably better than most.

There are issues around the spending of public money, it's a cash cow for the connected, that includes the outrageous NGO funding in the state which a few years ago was at 8% of entire expenditure.

The RTE debacle is poc money.

To practice as a medical scientist in a hospital laboratory you have to have to have the proper qualification and garda vetting.

There are recruitment processes in place where jobs have to be advertised, interviews carried out and panels formed.

I don't understand how anyone can "populate the place with family" when there are so many policies in place. An incompetent nephew would not just be given access to patient data under GDPR if they weren't qualified.

The Transparency international.. Global Corruption Perception Index shows us at 13th

There's definitely a cultural tolerance of nepotism that may be fading but is still present. May be a legacy of foreign rule in that we tend to see state bodies as things to be exploited for individual gain and the gain of family and friends rather than held in common ownership for the common good.

Yes, I think the 13th of the quoted poster probably refers to the 13th of the previous year where Ireland was among the 13th least corrupted according to how the panel surveyed perceived corruption in Ireland.

However things like nepotism won't feature in such a ranking if they are fully accepted by society.

From the website: "The sources and surveys which make up the CPI are based on carefully designed and calibrated questionnaires, answered by experts and businesspeople."

You’re reading it wrong. No harm in that but it’s been pointed out a few times now and you’re still presenting it as fact.

13th Least corrupt. So another 180 worse than us.

Completely and usually at much worse levels even in Europe.

Yeah. Jayzus, @Strumms.

You only have to look at the ranking - Denmark highest, Somalia lowest - and figure out the correct interpretation from there.

Is there any chance you might be adding your own bias and seeing what you want to see as its pretty obvious from a quick glance that we are 13th least corrupt on that index

Interesting but why don't you act then or go to the media with what you know? Another poster alluded to this.

You're complaining but expect others to act?

That makes you part of the societal problem you're complaining about.

Have the Germans ever heard of Patricia Schlesinger head of the public broadcaster busted de frauding the German public broadcasting system only last year.

We don't have this level of fraud..do we?

The employee was a civil servant, and was assigned to a job in the hospital in 2005. It was at this point he stopped going into work, the police said.

Because they are a very visible organisation it is clear for all to see the corruption in RTE ... we see guys like Ryan Tubridy all the time .... we know they are paid way too much for what they do ... but less visible corruption is elsewhere ....

I'd very much look at organisations like UCD, UCC, et al .... teachers writing academic papers and going to Hawaii and other exotic locations for decades to present them at self serving conferences ... and not showing up as a result to teach classes ... how much money do these 'teachers' get to tour the world?? Who do they think they are?? Indiana Jones? ..

It seems that no one anymore want to do the ordinary job ... they all have to be on the junket ... and can get more money, free nights out and even trips abroad ... glamouress and unnecessary cushy jobs created for the boys exists at the top echelons of most organisations ... and not just Ireland ... Ireland is one of the better countries ... but corruption exists everywhere ...

The average person is half asleep, has a short attention span and is apathetic. They know who Ryan Tubridy is and as long as the media keeps pushing the story, they will pay some attention - but once that stops they will move on to something else.

They don't know who Dee Forbes is or what a slush fund or barter account is.

If someone is criticised for nepotism, lying on a planning application or junketing using public money, many people will be thinking "Shur, I'd do that meself".