Interestingly apparently an Oireachtas Committee can’t say anything negative about an institution or an individual.
They know right well that it’s in the interests of too many powerful for this RTE stuff to disappear because odds are a huge amount of institutions in this country are ran in the same manner. And with political approval.
This RTE situation rocks the boat too much for a lot of powerful people so I’m sure the plan of action is for the people involved to not cooperate and just brass-neck their way through it until media and public interest die off.
Maybe a stupid question but why can’t the DPP bring charges against the likes of Dee Forbes? The account books have already forensically examined, surely there is something in there with regards misuse of state funds. Even if there is no conviction or sentence is negligible then at least they’ve been issued bench warrants to show up and give evidence.
Pat kenny made a great point this morning. All this noise about RTE – who have probably misspent in the low millions, which is absolutely tiny for our public sector – takes the spotlight away from the government signing off on another half a billion for the children’s hospital.
The CH should be front page news, they should be sacking civil servants, gutting government procurement and hauling minsters over the coals. But instead the story is RTE and whether someone’s payout was too big (It was) while the real story goes largely unnoticed..
Classic misdirection .
Wouldn’t us normal plebs get in a lot of trouble if we just didn’t show up to something like this?
RTE witnesses aren’t ‘failing’ to show up.
They don’t have to as the committee cannot compel them to. The author of the article is complaining that a committee is blunted because it can’t impugn the good name of a person or organisation but after watching the absolute circus that the committee has been, I’m sort of glad that referendum failed (i cannot for the life of me remember voting in it but I must have).
A better idea than clamouring for the ability of the committee to proclaim judgements would be to give it the power to actually compel people to show up
Protect shitty people get shitty out comes.
Scrap the licence fee, fuck RTE.
D4orbes is pulling a sickie. I don’t care if that’s uncharitable.
If you say you’re not only too sick to appear before a committee but also too sick to type or even dictate a statement about your conduct, you must produce a **doctor’s letter**.
According to her we can’t even dictate a statement for someone else to write it and for it to be read out in her absence at the committee.
Until she produces a doctor’s letter she’s pulling a sickie, she fooling everyone. For people to move on she must be compelled to appear before the committee.
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Interestingly apparently an Oireachtas Committee can’t say anything negative about an institution or an individual.
They know right well that it’s in the interests of too many powerful for this RTE stuff to disappear because odds are a huge amount of institutions in this country are ran in the same manner. And with political approval.
This RTE situation rocks the boat too much for a lot of powerful people so I’m sure the plan of action is for the people involved to not cooperate and just brass-neck their way through it until media and public interest die off.
Maybe a stupid question but why can’t the DPP bring charges against the likes of Dee Forbes? The account books have already forensically examined, surely there is something in there with regards misuse of state funds. Even if there is no conviction or sentence is negligible then at least they’ve been issued bench warrants to show up and give evidence.
Pat kenny made a great point this morning. All this noise about RTE – who have probably misspent in the low millions, which is absolutely tiny for our public sector – takes the spotlight away from the government signing off on another half a billion for the children’s hospital.
The CH should be front page news, they should be sacking civil servants, gutting government procurement and hauling minsters over the coals. But instead the story is RTE and whether someone’s payout was too big (It was) while the real story goes largely unnoticed..
Classic misdirection .
Wouldn’t us normal plebs get in a lot of trouble if we just didn’t show up to something like this?
RTE witnesses aren’t ‘failing’ to show up.
They don’t have to as the committee cannot compel them to. The author of the article is complaining that a committee is blunted because it can’t impugn the good name of a person or organisation but after watching the absolute circus that the committee has been, I’m sort of glad that referendum failed (i cannot for the life of me remember voting in it but I must have).
A better idea than clamouring for the ability of the committee to proclaim judgements would be to give it the power to actually compel people to show up
Protect shitty people get shitty out comes.
Scrap the licence fee, fuck RTE.
D4orbes is pulling a sickie. I don’t care if that’s uncharitable.
If you say you’re not only too sick to appear before a committee but also too sick to type or even dictate a statement about your conduct, you must produce a **doctor’s letter**.
According to her we can’t even dictate a statement for someone else to write it and for it to be read out in her absence at the committee.
Until she produces a doctor’s letter she’s pulling a sickie, she fooling everyone. For people to move on she must be compelled to appear before the committee.