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

Given how inept O'Keeffe was as CFO the Government should pursue her for every penny of her exhorbitant redundancy package. The whole thing is a joke. Forbes had some neck pleading for an increase in the TV License fee while authorising the redunancy package and Tubridy's side payments.

Tubridy is also a b*stard of the highest calibre. If he never set foot in Ireland again it would be great. He is a stain. A talentless twat who was grotesquely remunerated at our expense. If he had any moral fibre, which he doesn't, he would repay every side penny he earned. He had the neck to come on TV during the pandemic and tell us we're all in it together. All the while the little prat was coining it as people lost their jobs or had their income slashed whilst still working.

Lol

Kevin Backarse might

RTE doesn't have that 15m in cash to pay revenue when the times comes.

It'll be straight to government with the hand out as usual.

Government bails out RTE from state funds, RTE pays Revenue, Revenue hands the money back to state funds. Waste of time and effort really.

Fraud in plain daylight by RTE.

Brian Stanley of Sinn Fein has asked Breda O'Keefe to pay the money back.

O'Keefe got a "redundancy" package which represents the license fee paid by over 2,800 people.

I think today's revelations were worse than what was revealed at the previous Oireachtas meetings given the fact the board and Bakhurst knew they would be heavily scrutinized for everything in the future, they still didn't care about the impact of their actions.

Go again when you add in that RTE is now on the hook for the employment taxes on €450k

Does anyone know what the non-renewal rate is for the license currently?

This 'redundancy' payment doesn't meet the criteria for Revenue's termination payments as it does not appear to be a genuine redundancy and RTE have already said that they "will bear the cost of tax liabilities arising from voluntary exit payments".

If Revenue treat this as a normal/ex-gratia payment (they likely will) the tax bill could be larger than the actually payment of €450k to O'Keefe. This is because the payment will be treated as the net figure and the amount will have to be recalculated to calculate the gross payment.

As this happened in March 2020, there will also be penalties and interest due too, which will put the total cost of this 'redundancy' well in excess of €1m.

Tubridy's under the counter payments pale in comparison to this and at least he paid the tax on his payments.

That's some bunch of sick notes.

Wonder if their HR Director could comment as to whether it is out of trend for RTE?

Anyhow, enough moaning, got to get up and try do a fair day's work...for a fair da...........

Those absences are incredibly damning.

They’ve been badly advised. They would have been better off facing up and trying to convince people they were just poor at their jobs.

The only conclusion, in their absence, is that they are afraid to face the music are couldn’t find ANY argument to put forward as a defence.

They need to feel the sentiment of society every time they step foot outside their comfy little environments.

Scumbags.

It's weird alright that Tubridys secret payments have revealed all these other dodgy dealings. I am sure if Grant Thornton did a deep dive they would find a whole lot more. Their remit was to investigate issues that were blurted out at a toothless committee but I think we all know we are at the tip of the iceberg still.

These people are from the shirt and tie ilk.....they also probably mingle with some very important people so dont be surprised when it comes out that they can't be touched by revenue or anyone else for that matter.

Meanwhile, the ordinary joe soap is up in court non payment of tv license..

Its a great wee country

All pension payments to former executives of RTE should be stopped until this scadal is over...all redundancy payments and access to monies already given out should be frozen until its all cleared by revenue....but they won't.