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

Well cynical does think that is the reason why she was allowed to resign to protect all their asses and as one of the TD's or Senators said at the PAC hearing the other day its very easy to blame everything on Forbes. You'd have to wonder did they get together and say Dee you resign and then pull a sickie and we will look after you when its all over.

Dee Forbes was leaving anyway before this story broke.

RTE had even decided on appointing Kevin Bakhurst after an interview process, about two months before this all started.

Asking for her resignation at the end of June 23 was a pointless act as she was going in July anyway.

I agree that more than Dee Forbes knew about this, but the committees keep referring to all their powers, time to start using them.

Her contract was up and she was already out of there, using up holidays so the resignation was symbolic only.

Think that she was suspended by the board and that RTE tried to keep that secret until it was forced to confirm.

Regards...jmcc

Why should he have got any payment beyond in lieu of wages if told to leave before the notice date of finishing.

The gravy train at RTE has continued under Backhurst - millions of licence fee payers money is still seen as their own personal honey pot

Thank you, I was trying to remember last night who the other candidate was.

aye,they are STILL pishin it away with no end in sight it seems...ffs enough is enough...tired of the usual 'contractual agreements' 'confidentiality clauses' 'legal advice' load of bollix...only thing i havnt heard yet is 'lessons learned' its public/tax payer funded,we should know how our money is spent and on what...

I'd agree with almost all you say there Floppy, however I would say politicians are not overpaid for day to day stuff

Look at how Georgie scuttled back to the bosom of Montrosia when he realised the workload involved.

And he had the nice backstop back to the Pink Palace if the voters copped onto him.... most don't have that safety net.

So speaking of Dee Forbes and the title of the thread and @Floppybits question.

The first date for her being in front of an oireachtas committee(joint committee on communications, climate action and environment) as DG is November 22nd, 2016.

That initial appearance doesn’t seem to have gone down well in the Seanad, as two days later, senator Terry Leyden says she “made a fool of the committee”, as she was appointed on April 1st, 2016.

There’s five pages of results when you search her name, but that includes her appearing before committees and being mentioned in debates in both the Dail and Seanad.

^ God almighty..

Does this happen anywhere else?

I'm as green as grass about stuff like this. Is it actually legal or even moral?

Instead of practically pleading with Forbes and anyone else who won't appear, PAC need to get the.dinger out and start going the legal way.

One year later and no-one has actually been held responsible for the crap that is rte and their very questionable operations.

Since they decided to close the Tubsidy thread and don't know where the main conversation on RTE has moved too.

But seriously on what f-ing planet do you round 450K to 400K!!! It is getting beyond a joke at this stage and pure fraud!!

When did they last round any figures up by 50K!!!

They are all corrupt as hell, and should be Jailed as far as I am concerned!!

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0216/1432648-rte/

That's about the size of it. Unless fraud squad et al gets involved, this goes nowhere. The power to compel they have is feeble as it gets and will be vigorously fought by all the sicknotes. There's not a chance in hell any of these "distressed" "mentally fragile" or possibly even "suicidal" people will be compelled to do anything.

It's going to be fascinating to see how this plays out. 450k going away gifts for executives who lawyer up and put themselves beyond accountability while Joe Soap struggling to makes ends meet is told pay your dues to this organisation or take a fine and a conviction.

RTE cannot be trusted with public money.

I'm baffled how anyone could pay their licence fee after all this other than of course a desire not to break the law.

There is of course more to come out about this organisation.

And yet Adrian Lynch and Eimear Cusack are still working there!

Are we a nation of eijets?

Cosy club there. And Catherine Martin has been vastly disappointing in her position to represent the licence fee payer.

She has done nothing and is waiting on reports and reports and then when she gets them she does nothing.

The farce and scandal remained when we saw that Oliver Callan is being paid 150 grand for one hour of radio a day with presumably 8 to 10 weeks off a year.

No change.