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

Wow…

"A proposal for RTÉ to get public funding of €725 million over the next three years is to go to Cabinet tomorrow."

This is on the level of the new Children's hospital funding!!! almost 1 billion Euro for what!!

We could build a full second hospital even at the current cost in another 9 years!!

"The three coalition party leaders met tonight to sign off on the proposals.

The TV licence fee will remain at its current rate of €160 per year.

An Post will retain the contract to collect the charge.

However, An Post will be given €6m in funding over three years to improve collection rates by updating technology and databases."

Is this 6M extra or what do they normally get? Another 6M to quash the protest from ordinary people.

Seriously thinking or ditching my lovely OLED TV (Black Friday deal, and using 99% for streaming/Bluray) and going to a projector or some other not terrestrial receiving monitor of some sort??

There has to be a typo in that amount €725 million ???

Surely it should be €275

Which is still Crazy money!

A proposal for RTÉ to get public funding of €725 million over the next three years is to go to Cabinet tomorrow.

This figure includes paid-for TV licences, free TV licences and an Exchequer funding top up to bring it to the agreed level.

The exact amount of Exchequer funding will depend on the amount collected in TV licence revenue.

The three coalition party leaders met tonight to sign off on the proposals.

Outrageous amount of money.

That's €5million a week, is there some major infrastructure build needed or where is the money going? Surely they can't be needing that amount for day to day running costs. Remember them getting €107.5 million in 2017 for the land sale to Cairn Homes, where did that go?

shite on a stick…jesus h furkin christ…like what the furk…? €725MILLIONS??? for what? load of shite! feckin screw paddy public in the arse yet again!!! surely every one knows sweet fa is going to change in rte,be another load of waffle and bollixology next year looking for even more money ffs…still say shouldve closed it down,brought in the fraud squad and made dee and her mates answer questions from a holding cell…

Top brass are all connected to government, wasn't Dee a friend of Leo and no dought Simon after all his brother walked out with a nice chunk of money after costing 2 millions worth of dept .

Once they keep the government narrative they will recieve all the handouts they need

How are the Government not getting in the auditors to comb through RTE’s books?

I get that it’s a tricky subject before a general election but what’s the long term plan because it’s a basket case as is…

So basically no different to how it was before.

Well that was a valuable use of time wasn't it?

Fergal Bowers is over in the US covering the US election. Its not until November 5th. So, 104 days from now, lets give him 2 days to recover after it before he flies home.

(Very, very conservative estimates)

106 days * hotel room ~$150 a night

A per diem of $150 a day

Is $31,800 as well as his usual salary.

I work for a multi billion dollar company and I have to beg to travel to a foreign europe based office for a week. Any longer would need senior management approval. We have shareholders if we run out of money to explain to. RTE just goes back to the dail, cap in hand.

Have to hand it to the Government on this, seen the backlash and lies from RTE & public and thought what better way to fix RTE than giving them even more money that will be wasted in the following years.

RTE should be like Sky Sports, if you want it then you pay for it otherwise leave the public fund alone

What I don't understand is why the Oireachtas don't drag in the RTE board and the DG again and go through the fcuking RTE1 TV guide for today or any other day and ask they need so much money when a large majority of programme are Foreign?

I would think ( And I could be stupid) that what we are paying to RTE, they are then paying Foreign countries for licences to broadcast this programming.

So the cash for a majority of the programmes is leaving the country.

The idea that this money is contingent on RTE carrying out items on an action plan is laughable. They need the cash. They get the cash. Otherwise another funding crisis rears it's head and the whole sorry saga is in the spotlight yet again, something no government wants.

Government coffers are groaning. Pay them and make it go away. Was it every going to be any other outcome?

I agree here

If I don't pay my TV licence, they will take it from me through tax anyway

If I do pay my TV licence, they will still take it from me in tax again!!

Does anyone have a contact in Groupon or similar site. If they get cheap energy prices, and Spa days, could they not organise a mass professional TV (without Ariel input) so if we buy 1000s of TVs we'll get a good discount.

55 inch 4k should suit most people?

But I guess if we do this the tax is going up but at least it's just a once of cost.

Reports today suggest that Dublin Airport are about to enter an agreement with RTE to lease the car park at Montrose until September in an attempt to alleviate high demand for parking at Dublin Airport.

A spokesman is reported to have said that Montrose is like a ghost town from June to September and the first 1000 bookings will get 2 free pairs of flip flops and a €20 discount on the TV licence.

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Probably sounded funny in your head.

Well said. Harris in full election mode now -i.e. do-nothing mode.

RTE must be delighted with the declared third revenue stream established now.

Licence, Advertising and now a backstop of state funding.

People need to boycott the licence as they are on the hook to fund them through direct taxation anyway.

Rip off Ireland is thriving

Anyone got a good link that sums up Tubsgate and what followed?

After this sweetheart deal for RTE I wouldn't mind a refresher just to depress myself with the state of regulation / accountability in this country.

I am 1 of those people. House falling down round me with defective concrete. A house Ive been paying a mortgage on for 16 years. You are 100% correct. It sticks in the craw seeing this shyite going on. Only a few weeks ago Tubs up here in Donegal lumping his cash from RTÉ's slush fund into Muff Liquor that he "wasnt legally compelled" to return.

Im not looking to start a concrete debate but I feel like why the feck did I bother investing in this country by buying a home? There was no regulation. Quarries were allowed operate by councils here based on the CE mark as product insurance. The CE mark allows a 3 year statute of limitations on concrete. Just think about that for a second. 3 years for concrete. Its systemic. RTE is just a very public example at the moment.

Indeed, however O'Kelly is an employee of RTE as far as I know, she is not paid by the NUJ.

She shouldn't have not addressed the obvious question.

I accept your point that management need to come out from under their rock and now that JQtaxpayer is funding them directly, this business of siloing everything has to be brought to an end.

SO FAR VERY LITTLE SIGN OF ANY CHANGE.

In the TV building, what happened on Friday?

Sadly I wouldn't have been surprised, perhaps that's why its not funny.

Do we think that change the licence fee would have changed the outcome for RTÉ and Dee Frobes?

One Orchestra, RTÉ lobbied make the NCH take control of the NSO, Cor Na Nog and the Choir. A saving on 7million, which the would have saved in 2021 … vast majority of that saving when to RTÉ ONE … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT%C3%89#Breakdown_of_the_licence_fee

TV3 don't produce as much programming (but I won't start defending RTÉ).

An average hour of TV costs 100,000 (That is a mix of Drama at the high end and Studio programming at the low end). About 3 hours per day. Now RTÉ would need to mix with some cheap programming and some cheap imported programming.

However I highly doubt that RTÉ 1 produce anywhere near 3 hours of TV per day. RTÉ certainly does not.

Just to get the funding model down : -

2025 : Year 1

€225m Licence Fee and Exchqure funding

Increased in the Broadcasting and Media Funds going to €10m, plus Sound and Vision, bring it to 22.2m in 2025, I assume the extra 12.2m comes from the €255m

2026 and 2027 RTÉ funding increases to 240m and then to 260m

You think they'd have announced 2023 and 2024 funding.