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

And then you know what you do if you don't get a reply from Jim, Frances Abeton, Glen Killane, Willie O'Reilly, Jon William or Murine Laffan you doorstop each and every last one of them.

Problem is the Media all know the answer to those questions, they just don't want to ask those questions.

I am not sure about that, but there was an investigation into bullying in the news department, as stated in the Oireachtas Committee by Eimear Cusack, but also he would have left in line with the 2021 redundancy packages.

Because except for Jim, they all left Dee's Executive team and potential used the redundancy schemes to leave. I posted the years earlier in the thread.

Or why don't the media want to ask those questions? I don't really know TBH.

Yeah right. The print media has long been very critical of RTE - they're competing for the same advertising pot after all and the print media's websites aren't subsidised by licence-fee funded news and content.

Gavan Riley thinks journalism is tweeting news the fastest. News that he hasn't sourced himself. It's amateur hour.

While I like TG4 unless it takes control of RnaG and Children's Content from RTÉ its budget will be nowhere near 100m.

If RTÉ, TG4 and Screen Ireland want any increases they should be asked to outline what they would do on receipt on increase. There is this idea that RTÉ need more funding just to continue to do what it has always done.

The press really are behind. Tweets saying RTÉ is going contact those that left since 2016.

I didn't read the full articles but I am guessing names were not mention

Frances Abeton, Brian Dalton, Glen Killane, Willie O'Reilly, Jon William and Murine Laffan 

Maybe he'd write a musical?

(Sung to the tune of "The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman)

[Verse 1]

Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for

The night of the year, when we bring you something more

Than just a show, it's a spectacle, a musical extravaganza

But don't ask us how much it cost, 'cause we don't have an answer

[Chorus]

Whoa, we're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We're everything you ever want, we're everything you ever need

And it's here right in front of you, this is where you wanna be

We're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We light up the screen, we make you laugh, we make you cry

But we don't care about the budget, we just spend it till it's dry

[Chorus]

Whoa, we're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We're everything you ever want, we're everything you ever need

And it's here right in front of you, this is where you wanna be

We're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We light up the screen, we make you laugh, we make you cry

But we don't care about the budget, we just spend it till it's dry

[Bridge]

But what you don't know, is that we lost 2.2 million

On a musical that flopped, it was a disaster

But we don't regret it, we don't apologize

We just move on, we just ignore the cries

Of the taxpayers, the license payers, the ones who fund our show

They don't matter, they don't understand, they don't know what we know

That we're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We're the greatest show on earth

[Chorus]

Whoa, we're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We're everything you ever want, we're everything you ever need

And it's here right in front of you, this is where you wanna be

We're the Toy Show, the Toy Show

We light up the screen, we make you laugh, we make you cry

But we don't care about the budget, we just spend it till it's dry

We're the Toy Show

, the Toy Show

We're the greatest show on earth

Why did Bakhurst enter into a confidentiality agreement and why was the handshake deal so ridiculously high when the station is broke?

I because it looks bad.

Some one in Human Resource could provide a better outline of the issues on the Firing of people from a company, RTÉ had choices: -

1. Large payment to move the person along quickly (they choose this)
2. Consider Dismal paying out minimum 12 weeks severance due to the dismissal (there are a range of reasons you can be dismissed on)
3. Consider gross misconduct (no payment required here)

The first is the easy option, the second 2 could have Richard and Rory bring you to the WRC, but let them, it would be then in the public domain, I don't think either Rory or Richard would want that, and what if they lost?

But perhaps there is more, we prob should read the advice give to RTÉ, in that press release.

I agree, we saw what happened the last auditor that tried to do a good job - they changed auditor. Remember the emergency call they got st paddys day that something was up? All of a sudden a new auditor brought in.. hmmmmmm

The letters telling RTÉ to retain confidential do not actually show why RTÉ decided offer either Richard or Rory, on what legal grounds they might have been brought into the WRC.

I can understand why Bakhurst would want to get rid of both as quickly as possible and start fresh.

But the legal advise that he has provided has nothing to do with the exit package he and the board signed off on. Rather it is about the confidentiality of those exit packages.

If Bakhurst and RTE don't want to end up in the WRC then why not offer everyone a good exit package?

Would Rory or Richard want to go to the WRC? It would put it largely into the public domain, why they were fired and how much they were paid.

Did Bakhurst and the board ever think of just dismissing them under a Dismal or under Gross Negligence ? were these options raised?

Seems RTÉ had no negotiating hand? This does sound right.

It's a small community of execs in rte and no doubt in each other's pockets in work, and outside work.

Dublin and it's environs might like to convince the rest of us that's it's a big metropolis but in reality in a city with a large number of people and then an area with a particular set of people. People who live in a whole different world to most regular folk.

Rte seems to breed an arrogant mentality that is disgusting tbh.

They have truly gotten above themselves and I don't think PAC is capable of changing that.

When you hear about the goings on at the FAI, you have to wonder whether every government funded entity is corrupt and wasteful. Do they all need to be probed? Successive FF and FG government have allowed a free for all and toothless committees have only found out about major malpractice by accident. It's utterly depressing.