RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

...you will never see or hear from Dee Forbes again. There is a very dark and sinister aspect to this , that will never see the light of day. Was Dee forbes a naturally corrupt and rogue DG ? or was she corrupted into doing these frankly bizarre and nefarious actions? Have RTE and other powerful entities moved to bury the truth forever?

It was clearly a dishonest deception in his statements about pay cuts. That in your post you have get into semantics is demonstrable prood of this.

There was no real extra productive work. There was no new money for RTE in fact they blew 50k running this sham scam.

It was a sham by RTE to ensure Tubridy didnt take a pay cut. So yes it was part of his base contract.

If all that happened was Renault paid for extra work it would not be the same situation.

It all comes back to them demanding RTE guarantee the work. Even when there was no work!

So it was clearly part of his RTE remuneration.

Nobody was actually willing to give Tubridy extra money.

It's not dishonest.

If it's a seperate contract. For work other than radio/TV it's taken a cut on the salary declared by RTE.

How can you say there was no other work?

There's videos of the work. The fact RTE didn't make money doesn't make it not work.

Again, you're expecting them to behave in a way we don't expect of anyone else.

I expect my employer to pay me. I expect them to pay me on the days there may not be work for me to do. It's our contract. Me expecting that contract to be honored work or not is not some sort of "scam" it's what I agree with my employer. If I cost my employer money, I expect to be paid. If they lose money on my output. I expect to be paid. There's nothing "wrong" in expecting your employer to meet the agreed contract.

RTE agreed to underwrite the contract. They agreed to pay. Hail/Rain/Snow. So why wouldn't NK expect them to pay out? work or no work?

Someone was willing to give him extra money. RTE and plenty of it. They just went the wrong way about doing it.

Social media. TV/Radio.

Apparently TD's are suggesting that sympathy from the public is siding with him.

I've only glanced at Social Media but noticed a huge support for Tubs. Can't give an opinion on TV/Radio. I guess TDs need to be careful. Again, they can win & lost votes on someone like Ryan. I don't dislike like, I just don't think he's good on TV or Radio.

On another note, the Late Late Show had lots or RTE Canteen guests and Z listers. It's a shame some of that 2.2 million wasn't spent on quality international guests appearing on the show to lift the standard. Though I'm not sure how well Ryan would interview them.

The head of corporate said during PAC she brokered the deal and went out looking for the gigs

The CFO of RTE said he was aware of RTE looking to find ways to get RT more bobs.

NK cannot make RTE do anything. RTE decide what to do and how to do it. NK doesn't work for RTE.

It's NK's job to get something locked in. I've no problem with NK asking RTE to do anything. He can ask and request what he likes.

RTE needed to tell NK to go and jump

They didn't they failed at every step on this.

100% they shouldn't have been doing any of this.

They had to pay out because the contract that they had underwritten deemed it to be! work or no work.

Maybe you don't like the visual glamour, but I do.

Nah. Not going to work for my **** bank.

I think there is a lot to come out of RTE. This is a really tricky decision for government, Bakhurst etc.

Exactly, and this is why the scenario presented by NKM/Tubridy seems implausible

Excellent negotiator NKM may be, but why on earth would he expect RTE to guarantee such a deal for five years? According to NKM, RTE were merely the brokers of the deal, Renault was the client. So why would he think RTE would underwrite the deal? The only real leverage I can think of that he could use to get RTE to accept such a ridiculous arrangement is to a threat to scupper the whole Tubridy 2020-25 contract.

By the way, I don't believe NKM explained why he looked for 75k for each of 2021 and 2022 since no gigs were done. Especially since Tubridy seems to now recognise the no foal no fee principle and is offering to pay the 150k back.