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

The Irish people being taken for mugs again and there’s nothing they will do about it.

Very smart move by Forbes to pull the sicknote out of the hat back in July. She's untouchable now and they know it. This is Angela Kerins all over again. Her GP will supply a letter stating acute phycological distress etc etc and the politicians can go F themselves then.

If anything was ever going to come of this, the Gards would have to investigate and they do not want to know. It needs to go to litigation for answers to be got.

Where are the new Charlie Bird's of Irish journalism? Shouldn't someone be dispatched to Bantry to knock on some doors and shove a microphone in a few faces?

Accountability is for the little people.

David McRedmond nearly bankrupted TV3. Bought for 260m, sold for 80m, lost the ITV soaps. And as for Buckhurst do you think he would have fallen down this whole, he was their for six months under Dee.

Sinn Fein Idea, is now to fund via Exchequer up to €140m (less than what they get out of the licence fee currently) and because An Post losses the contract to sell the licence fee to give them 14m a year for as a replacement, just a few million because you lost a contract. what nonsense.

Plus TG4's exchequer funding of 50m and what every the Irish Film Board get.

total license fee comes to 221.5 million in 2022

Your talking about 300m in funding going into TV and Film in total.

Well something needs to change. The court time, 2000 hearings last year for non-payment of the license. What an utter waste of time and money. Jailing someone for not buying a TV License. More wasted money, at a time when prison space is at a premium. Someone with 83 convictions against their name could be let out early to accomodate Paddy O'Toole who didn't buy a TV LIcense. It's farcical.

Plus, since RTE stopped broadcasting on analogue, buying a TV nolonger instantly means you can even get RTE, you have to buy a Saorview box to even be able to recieve it. Might as well call it a Saorview License.

Technically it's a license for having a TV. Do with it as you please.

Those going to court have had many opportunities to buy a licence or pay the fine before jail comes into the picture. As I understand it it's a quick visit anyway.

So only 20 of 26 gave permission for their name to be released. Are we allowed speculate who the other six are?

1. Person 1 (Ms. Susan Ahern, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member)
2. Person 2 (Mr. Richard Collins, CFO of RTÉ and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
3. Person 3 (Mr. Rory Coveney, Director of Strategy)
4. Person 4 (Ms. Eimear Cusack, Director of Human Resources)
5. Person 5
6. Person 6 (Mr. Julian Erskine, External Consultant)
7. Person 7
8. Person 8 (Mr. David Harvey, Board of Director Member)
9. Person 9 (Mr. Daire Hickey, Board of Director Member and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
10. Person 10 (Mr. Jim Jennings, Director of Content)
11. Person 11 (Mr. Ian Kehoe, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
12. Person 12 (Ms. Deborah Kelleher, Board of Director Member)
13. Person 13 (Mr. Adrian Lynch, Director of Audience Channels Marketing in RTÉ)
14. Person 14 (Mr. PJ Mathews, Board of Director Member)
15. Person 15
16. Person 16 (Ms. Paula Mullooly, Director of Legal Affairs and Group Secretary)
17. Person 17
18. Person 18 (Mr. Connor Murphy, Board of Director Member, and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
19. Person 19
20. Person 20 (Ms. Anne O’Leary, Board of Director Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee)
21. Person 21 (Ms. Geraldine O’Leary, Director of Commercial and Board Director of RTÉ Commercial Enterprises DAC)
22. Person 22
23. Person 23 (Mr. Jonathan Ruane, Board of Director Member)
24. Person 24 (Mr. Robert Shortt, Board of Director Member and Audit and Risk Committee Member)
25. Person 25 (Mr. Richard Waghorn, Director of Operations, Transformation & Technology)
26. Person 26 (Ms. Moya Doherty, Chair of the RTÉ Board until November 2022).

140 million for the executives to **** on top of the license paying public with sicknotes,140 euro is too much.

Really? What make and model are they? Do they have Freeview built in or a satellite tuner. I have a 13 year old TV with Saorview from Walker.

Plus nowadays, you could have a family of 4, 4 phones, 4 tablets, 4 laptops, all accessing RTE content but no TV so no license.

There are students up and down the country whose student accomodation isn't big enough to fit a TV in, so they watch the Sunday Game or whatever on their phone. No TV, so no License.

I'm looking to upgrade my digital TV package and Sky are pushing Sky Stream which looks to be the future. No cable connection, no satelite, just stream it, which means you could have a monitor plugged into the sky box not a television, so no TV license required, but you can watch RTE.

The one im "looking" at right now is a Toshiba, I bought it for my dad for his 70th so its 16 years old. It has a Sky box plugged into it. No freeview.

I am because I am looking about this from the point of view of actual public service broadcasting not RTÉ.

As I say, you need to fix RTÉ before you change the way we pay for public service broadcasting. My preference is to split RTÉ, and to get rid of the company completely. But any new or existing public service broadcaster won't get very far with 140m, on top of paying for local media and broadcast services.