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THE EQUALITY TRIBUNAL has upheld three complaints against the Irish Prison Service and has directed it to pay out €85,000 in awards to three employees.
The November judgements, published this morning, were all filed as employment equality cases.
Anne Delaney and Monica O’Sullivan Byrne both took cases over working conditions and promotion opportunities. They were awarded €40,000 and €25,000 respectively.
Julie Madden also took a case after she was unsuccessful in her application for promotion. She had applied for an allowance-carrying post in the Detail Office but was not appointed. Two junior male officers were successful in their applications. The Irish Prison Service was directed to pay her €20,000.
During the month, the Tribunal upheld or part-upheld ten complaints awarding €162,200 to the complainants.
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100K is more than enough for any of them. Using the Irish taxpayers credit card to fund their lavish lifestyles has to stop. They simply are not worth what they think they are worth.
Let them go to the market with their “talents” if they believe they have what it takes to succeed at Graham Nortons level for example. The market doesn’t life.
@David Corrigan: Whats even more galling is the fact that musicians appearing on the LLS were told it was the prestige of being on the show and were therefore not paid for doing it..In latter years we didn’t even get a meal voucher anymore..
@David Corrigan: I’m not surprised Paul to be honest.
It’s like getting a job and you are told you will get €500.00 per week in wages BUT we are going to give you a car also! You are supposed to jump up and down with excitement to be getting such a deal.
The culture in this country needs to change. Pay them what they are worth. Increase the wages for the hard workers and decrease the wages for the wasters who think they can’t be done without.
@David Corrigan: nobody will ever make me believe that Darcy is worth 100k never mind 400k
@David Corrigan: who gets to decide who the hard workers are and who the wasters are?
@David Corrigan: Did you ever hear tell of a thing called “management”?
@David Corrigan: so the managers of RTE would get to decide? That would not go well I would suggest.
@David Corrigan: “Let them go to the market with their supposed talents”. €50k salaries then.
@David Corrigan:
appearing on the late late would got your CD sold in all fairness
@David Corrigan:
I’ve never seen a ryan tubridy late late episode (not even the toy show) where he was anywhere near as entertaining as the graham norton show
No. Dump the license fee and let the company operate profitably or not at all – that way they can pay their ‘stars’ according to the income they actually help generate
@Schrodingers Immigrant: Exactly. They generate their wage bill first and then go with their begging bowl to the government to get the funds to pay it. They need to look at it from the opposite direction like you suggested i.e. see how much revenue they can generate and then pay accordingly.
@Schrodingers Immigrant: Probably the mosy sensible thing I’ve seen you post, and that’s from a veeeery long list of failed comments. Well done boy.
@Schrodingers Immigrant: No. We need a properly run public service broadcaster.
@Schrodingers Immigrant: exactly. Finished license fee and let’s the running they way they want. No more public money.
@Schrodingers Immigrant: 100%
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: I don’t think so, but I suppose others, like yourself, may disagree. Here’s a compromise: split it out and fund the public service side (news, documentaries) from tax/ licence fee. Pay the ‘stars’ from advertising and subscription fees paid by those who want Eastenders, Fair City, etc.
Our government has no issues privatising gas electricity and water. Things Our citizens need just to survive and Things that every single one of us needs but somehow won’t entertain getting rid of the waste of time that is rte. The tax payer is being robbed blind and given criminal records for not paying €160 licence fee to pay the people who are robbing us.
€250 k is still too much to be honest
What a circus. The highest paid politicians in the world per capita quizzing the highest paid public broadcasters in the world per capita. Only in Ireland
@Jon Smith: I get your point but where are you getting the highest paid politicians in the world per capita? Surely that’s Singapore no? Some source please as seems not based on fact.
@Jon Smith:
the PAC and RTE .. Brian Stanley the man who ignored Gerry Adams behavior confronting the people who ignored Gerry Ryan’s behavior
Need to cap all public servants including RTE personnel, County Councillors, TD’S
aka Total Dossers at the average industrial wage levels with no expenses and no garda siochana security. Pay the same tax as everyone else would force them to improve all facets of Irish life. Only people that are really interested in public service would put themselves forward and also a limit of 2 terms to serve so if a person was a county Councillor and then elected to Dail Eireann can only serve 1 term in the Dail. No extended family or cronyism to gain a foothold.
Call their bluffs at contract negotiation time. They all know the alternative is Virgin Media television and Newstalk/Today FM and even then most of them wouldn’t get a job at either.
@Magnificent Mongoose:
TG4 are giving you a great film tonight at 9.30pm
The time for a « national broadcaster « is long gone. That would be fine in Stalinist country, but we have vibrant independent broadcasters doing an excellent job at no cost to the taxpayer
Boycott the licence fee!!!
How can the state-funded broadcaster justify these outrageous annual salary packages?
We, the Irish public, pay a very high tv license charge, which applies to each individual television in each home. This amounts to a very large sum of money being contributed to RTE by the Irish people. This weekend, all we had to watch was sport, that is to say only the Irish people interested in sport were catered for. Those of us that are not weren’t. Surely, therefore, RTE should invest their millions in better programme selection and scheduling rather than the grossly-inflated salaries of some of their employees.
@Ronan Raftery: Mate you only have to buy on TV Licence per household, regardless of number of TV sets.
Time to drain the swamp
Joe Duffy just referred to Ryan Tubridy as a unique talent, lol and most of the callers are all in support of Tubridy.
What a joke RTE is.
Shut RTE down now,
We want a national station that repersents the people
@Adam: Duffy controls the participants in subtle ways. Another useless”TALENT”. I wonder how squeaky clean he is!
@Adam: Joe Duffy is on 350 grand? Wow, unbelievable.
Bring back John Duffy NOW!
Trickle down economics is a proven failure, trickle down corruption is thriving though. No accountability at any level amongst the elite, that’s for the underlings. Another talk shop of high paid golden circle insiders, lessons will be learnt but no one will be held to account or suffer any consequences. FFG OUT and take RTE with ya.
Unless those responsible for this mess are held accountable I will never pay the licence fee again
@Terry Tibbs: Yes you will.
@Nick Cahill: Orange Man, bad.
Political class and its 4th estate media buddies cicking the wagons
4th estate media buddies backing up their 5th columnists political establishment parties now Circling the wagons to cut off any further action
She’ll refuse, citing medical reasons. Didn’t some charity Queen Pin do the same.not so long ago.
Can Dove’s fly.. Have them take part in community service once per week too emptying bins in South Dublin.
Is RTE going to address the anomaly that they created alonng with GAA( 2 heavily subsided entities with public money) in running 2 of the senior quarter finals on the GAAGO as pay per views???
@M Bowe:
is that the same GAA who provide character references to sex offenders ?
It’s time for the government to move legislation to stop all pensions to staff who resign when a scandal breaks and also make it a legal requirement that any person on a state or semi state board is legally required to come before any Dail committee, failure to do so should lead to jail.
The RTE board needs to be suspended right now so they can’t delete any records.if they haven’t do so already.
If the government doesn’t act then th Irish people need to hit RTE in the pocket by boycotting all the major RTE shows…..like the news, prime time, late late show, fair city and so on….the drop in viewers wouldn’t be long sending the advertising companies running
And given the Byzantine nature of the accounting, why didn’t Mr Tubridy or his accountant, not raise the matter with RTE?
@Ronan Raftery.
The license fee is per house, not per TV set
“In Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set. Since 2016, the annual licence fee is €160.”
@Geraldine O’Riordan: Medal on its way to you Ger. That comment had a pungent whiff of defending RTÉxtortion.
She simply stated a fact, correcting a false statement.
Of course some people hate facts.
@Brendan O’Brien: Ok, Sir White Knight.. You do realise your “mansplaining” is worse, right?! Muppet of the highest order LOL
I haven’t ‘explained’ anything. I have stated a fact, like the commenter did. Of course thickos won’t understand this.
@Brendan O’Brien: “Thickos”. Let me guess Brendalese, you too live South of the Liffey in a leafy little tax haven..
No, but I know a thicko when I see one.
@Brendan O’Brien: You must spend a lot of time in front of the mirror so in that case..
@Chett Richards: Chett, sit down off the keyboard there, good man…
@Richard Parker: Dickie, remove that ridiculous flag from your profile pic, and keep your mouth closed if you want to avoid being made an utter clown of in front of your perpetually enraged little friends.
@Geraldine O’Riordan:
Since 2016, the annual licence fee is worth €1.60.”
Plenty more to come folks! No surprises from Dee Forbes…S.O.B. Sure many of you will know what that stands for! And I won’t be surprised if she had her hand in the cookie jar
@Paddy: Claire Byrne getting £270000 for her morning show and another £25k for her quiz show on tv -I wont elaborate any further as no need to say no more.Suffice it to say that my next tv licence is in jepoardy.
@Paddy:
she did information videos for the windmill industry
Making sure that their political establishment parties arses are all covered and that nothing gets out into the public domain.
This was a poll before and now the page has changed to a liveblog
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: The poll is another separate article.
The amount of people supporting Tubridy with “ah shur he did nothing wrong” is absolutely baffling.
He may not have done anything illegal, but he’s clearly knew exactly what was going on and hence lied by omission. The guy is morally bankrupt and uses stuff like the toy show and all his fake empathy as a cover for his true character.
People who can’t see what he did wrong are morally bankrupt themselves.
@Jack Cronin:
the irish people know their place .. why do you think they keep funding the GAA after they provided character references for sex offenders ?
The question is not what is the exact amount these people are being paid, it is why are they receiving such enormous sums of money. RTE needs to get rid of the celebrity culture
More bla bla bla
Paying a TV licence fee to support these jackasses…
When is Leo going to summon the head of the BBC to explain them ignoring Ireland? Long overdue.
@dream catcher: He did. They ignored him.
@dream catcher: So he just allowed the BBC to get away with completely ignoring Ireland on its channels but he CAN do this to RTE?
@dream catcher: Yes. Do not question our leaders. Unless its on leader’s questions.
Shocked at claire byrnes statement about pur tea!
their T.V and Radio stations are not worth the time of day much better tv and radio stations elsewhere
Needs to go the same way as the water charges. However, I get the feeling government will hand it over to revenue to collect the fee .
what i find extraordinary about all of this is that no one has come out to defend Ryan…but Linekar gets shafted by BBC on a 1.7 m salary and they all back him…..
@scarke: Not RTEs problem. Lineker has nothing to do with this thank God.
Blah blah blah, Blah blah blah! Blah blah blah! Nothing to see here, sorry Not sorry!!!
So, how much did this cost the Broadcaster? Because if my sums, and understanding are correct, we’re talking about €150,000, are we not? What happened to the Advertising Credit that the Sponsor was given, with was to offset what Turbrity was going to be paid? Because there’s no doubt that he got paid. Did the Sponsor still get that Credit?
@Pádraig Ó Tomhnair: according to the Sunday Times, Kelly sent invoices totaling €230,760 to RTE. Taking €150,000 out of that, where did the balance end up?
RTÉ employees to protest RTÉ corruption
Leo doing the right thing……. That’s why I’ll be voting Fine Gael.
@Luma plex: As you stated previously, you definitely are as bent as the backroads LOL
@Luma plex:
SF/IRA doing the wrong thing……. That’s why I’ll be voting any one else
I dont understand why they would give a comprehensive statement.. to state what?! surely an investigation and review of all of the salaries, dismissal of the personelle involved from processing the wages to approving the wages and anyone else receiving in excess of their contract would be adequate.
Absolutely Hilarious the Barbecue got cancelled! What could possibly happen?
RTE says it has to pay huge money to keep the talent but where would they go?
The Montrose Muppets need to go to a warehouse in Athlone and start again from scratch
Hope they didn’t cancel reeling in the years
It’s a dublin channel always has been
Damn.. Our tea:)
I occasionally watch NHK a Japanese public media station. The level of programming and the nature of the programmes is phenomenal. No soaps or egomaiacs in sight. It is 100% funded by the licence fee and there is no advertising. Up to date news and weather. Staff have slept on the premises during earthquake and tsunami keeping the public informed. There is no hierarchy as presenters seem to move on to better paying roles overseas or on a commercial channel. Commercial channels are not viewed as rivals to NHK in Japan as they are not competing in that marketplace. Remove ad revenues and a decent public broadcasting service funded solely on licence fee can become a reality, but for society it is a necessity.
Champions League games and all rugby games should be dropped by RTE as it is a waste of licence fee money.
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