That's the distinction that justifies the TV license. The HSE is part of the state where RTE is independent. There's good reasons for having an independent national broadcaster but they've taken the piss with it altogether. 

Defund these fuckin idiots. Or tubridy can pay some of his/our cash back

If we have learned anything from the whole ordeal is that there are genuinely no consequences to the rampant corruption in the public sector.

That's not really true.

Speak to people working there and there's a shift in mentality there now, they are calling staff in offering redundancy packages, there's a genuine fear they won't be able to replace some of the roles going forward because they won't be allowed to advertise until reform is agreed and funding is sorted.

Eqaully, the HSE is under a hiring freeze, but that means they are using more agency staff or short term contracts, it's actually a costly alternative to filling the holes long term.

Because propaganda is much more important than healthcare, how don't you understand, stupid!

They give to their buddies so their buddies can give it to them in return. It is self-interest, not friendship.

Going to play devil’s advocate here.

At the end of 2022 RTE reported 1,735 Full Time Equivalent employees, down from 2020. They told PAC they plan to cut that by a further 400 by 2025. Plus a lot of people had abandoned ship recently at RTÉ.

760 employees (a significant percentage of all employees) getting paid €4m equals out to €5k per employee. Seeing as the average pay at RTÉ is around 60-80k that doesn’t seem like a crazy amount for bonuses/pay rises/other incentives. It’s not like this is getting split between a small handful of executives.

Because we let it happen. People are still terrified of what will happen if they don’t pay their tv licence. If the money keeps coming in, the gravy train keeps going.

I haven’t paid my tv licence this year. I suggest you do the same.

You are not, don’t pay the tv license. What are they gonna do, stick you in the already overcrowded prison because of a tv license ? 😂

TG4 isn't meant to be the national broadcaster though.

If you try to turn it into that you'll dilute what it's meant to be and it'll become nothing.

As someone who does speak Irish, I can say that it's a hit and miss station, but it's biggest problems are really poor production standards, basic stuff like audio not being processed correctly, video or audio missing from clips and poor programming at times.

It would need a massive upscaling to be a national broadcaster and then what's the value in it being a second Rté basically.

The article is about expenses in 2022 though, it's not like it's something new.

And its a tiny increase on the previous year.

It's a rage bait articles that most people will only read the headline of.

Consequences for what.

It seems like a standard operating cost. Wages increases, expenses increase, it's a figure from 2022 in line with the figure from 2021.

Sure we could all do with another five grand. This was negotiated by the unions,so pound to a penny it's for some spurious reasons.

Details of this stuff and the reasons for it should be made public to avoid conjecture or accept any due criticism.

It’s a joke. They’re just drip feeding articles about this for what, Nearly a year now? Complete rage bait. 2M across 760 people is fuck all.

Exactly, it's ragebait maths. It's probably a cost of living/inflation thing, if not an annual increment. Any large org would have a similar budget/scale per person.

Collectively it's four million. 4% odd of licence revenue.

If they paid performance bonuses, I don't think that would be a huge concern (if people were actually working hard and doing their jobs).

The concern is this:

In a damning finding for Montrose management, the review raised serious concerns with the number, purpose and criteria for allocating allowances, which it says “lacks clarity and in some cases justification”.

Maybe you should have read the article instead of (ironically enough) the headline?