RTÉ boss Kevin Bakhurst rejects claims that €725 million funding is ‘reward for inefficiency’

by Willing-Departure115

30 comments

  2. You fuck up and still get paid. 

    It’s like giving your dog pats and treats after its tore up your new shoes. 

    Enabling shite behaviour, though that’s nothing new in Ireland. 

  3. I have to say honestly, this is the most baffling of outcomes for RTE, I would even say the DG had to do a double take to make sure he was reading it correctly. The Gov have managed to do one of the most impressive pivots ever witnessed, someone how pinning all this on the tax payer, turning the issue into an issue about non payment of licence fees, completely ignoring why there is a sudden upsurge in non payment.

    I mean someone has to pay for RTE that is a given, but I expected some serious reform from the Gov, a serious opportunity and they afford them even more money, its stuff you couldn’t write.

    Then Minister Martin keeps on saying we are not the only party in power, others didn’t want it done away with, at least name these people.

    Then talk of actual legislation to go after people not paying, while the RTE board of the day have literally walked away from this 100s of thousands up and what they to me have done is completely boarder line fraud but no legislation is brought in or actually anything meaningful at all is done.

  4. So this €725 mil is guaranteed by the gov, so whatever RTÉ doesn’t make from licenses & advertising will be subsidised up to €725 mil by taxpayers. So if you pay for a licenses, you have been taxed double for keeping RTÉ afloat. This tells me that there’s literally no real reason to pay a license, they’ll get the money regardless now.
    Good job FFGG, you’ve screwed the taxpayer again. Seriously, how many times we going to let them do this?

  5. RTÉ is like a chronic drug addict whose lifestyle keeps being enabled by cash injections from the government. Why would RTÉ change its ways when the money keeps rolling in regardless?

    Anyone who has observed the behaviours of a drug addict with an enabling relative or partner will understand.

  6. So if they’re getting even *more* of my tax money that’s my TV licence paid for, right?

    I mean I don’t need to bother anymore as that would be a *double* payment I’d be making for the same “service”?

    You wouldn’t pay twice for the same thing I’d you’re only getting it once…

  7. They should stop burning down Coolock and burn down RTE instead.

  8. It is ridiculous but we’re just told to sit there and take it and we do.

  9. If they’re guaranteeing them a figure on top of the licenses then why even bother continue collecting the TV license? You’re paying the collection costs, the legal costs and everything associated with license collection. That money goes into a pot and is topped up by public money anyway.

    Why even bother keeping up the pretence of the TV license?

  10. This is wealth transfer from the Irish people to the incompetent managerial class. Plain and simple.

  11. *taps head
    Can’t charge me for a TV licence if I live in a tent

    ¾ of Billion worth of housing? Nah, let’s give Fair City a makeover.

  12. Millions going from RTE to the private sector. Used to work on a service agreement there for a private company. We were charging them crazy money, and were on better wedge than the RTE staff. So of that €735m, huge chunk goes straight back out the door to private outsourcing…

  13. I’m waiting for the Mystery Machine to pull up at Montrose, Scooby and the gang to pull of Backhurst’s mask and reveal it was John Delaney all along.  

  14. I am disgusted with the government. They really went against the will of the people on this one.

  15. The Government is a representation of the people who for it .

  16. So not only did they spend millions on those RTE tribunals of Inquiry on the matter as well as valuable Oireachtas committee time, payoffs etc, they essentially are giving them a raise now and increased legal power to demand licence fee payments 👏

    And all this in the midst of an inflation crisis with the announcement made just after the Dail 2 month Summer recess begins 😃

    I guess Fair City will be able to hire a few more characters.

  17. I am disgusted with the government. They really went against the will of the people on this one.

  19. Wonder if RTE has anything on some major politicians…that’s the only thing that makes sense

  20. It’s funny how our gravy train works In this country and we just put up with it. Meanwhile there is a lady on gofund me fundraising for kidney dialysis.

    I get we need public broadcasting and we should protect it but we should not reward what has gone on.

  21. I got talking to Bakhurst at a dog show last month and was asking him how the RTE shakeup was going. He gave me the most intense look I’ve ever received, gently stroked my jaw and told me “As a great man once said – you ain’t seen nothing yet!”.
    #WereBackingBakhurst

  22. All I know for sure is we should definitely keep voting the same people and parties in again. That’ll change things.

  23. >We have gone out, we have answered all the questions about it

    False. The most senior person in RTE throughout the whole scandal didn’t answer one question.

  25. Its cheap for the Government as RTE pumps out its spoofery all day which is lapped up by its pensioner audience most of which are more than likely FF and FG voters. The nice rub for the old FF and FG voters is that they dont have to pay a licence to receive their daily dose of RTE.

  26. This has to be one of the biggest F… You from the government to the people that we have heard in a while .It is just one thing after another , but to reward a corrupt company so blatently, just shows the true measureof this truly weak and self serving lot .

    Please people , vote carefuly in next election

  27. It absolutely is though. I remember thinking during the whole fiasco last summer that the outcome will be RTÉ coming out saying “lessons have been learned” and nothing will change

  28. So are we still paying the licence fee or is that to be scrapped.

  29. This whole situation could be resolved if RTE announced Podge and Rodge are back in the evenings and Bosco is back in the daytime.

  30. I don’t get it…

    How come he’s cutting, shaking and moving everything, we have shows cut, presenters exiting but he’s getting more money… ?

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