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RTÉ's cost-cutting programme will see 70 jobs lost

The broadcaster offers early retirement and voluntary redundancy schemes in a bid to cut its €34m shortfall.

RTÉ HAS CONFIRMED it wants to remove 70 people from its payroll through a combination of voluntary redundancies and early retirement.

The combined schemes will cost the broadcaster around €10m initially, but will save it around €5m in wage costs in future years.

Staff accepting the voluntary redundancy package will receive six weeks’ pay for year of service, capped at 130 weeks, while staff aged 55 or over are entitled to lump sums of up to €60,000 depending on their age and service.

RTÉ said the plans were necessary in order to help make up an expected budget shortfall of €34m this year, and described its offers as “prudent”.

The broadcaster’s top presenters are expected to take pay cuts of around 30 per cent from their peak, in further efforts to reduce RTÉ’s budget shortage.

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    Mute Alan Mulvey
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    Jun 21st 2011, 6:12 PM

    please let Joe duffy be one

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    Mute Brian M
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    Jun 21st 2011, 6:23 PM

    Don’t forget that absolute moron Tubbers…

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    Mute Sean Coffey
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    Jun 23rd 2011, 5:24 AM

    I thought they were going on about a new telly programme, where Aongus McAnally improves productivity in the tourism sector!!

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    Jun 21st 2011, 7:01 PM

    I haven’t watched RTE news since the whole bailout fiasco when RTE behaved as the propaganda wing of FF.
    Sell the whole lot,I for one wouldn’t miss any of it, it’s a another burden the hard pressed tax payer could do without.
    Paying clowns like Tubridy, Finnucane,Kenny, and Duffy ridiculous sums to indulge themselves at our expense is a disgrace.

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    Mute Gis Bayertz
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    Jun 21st 2011, 8:12 PM

    Yes, same here Huey

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    Mute David Higgins
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    Jun 21st 2011, 6:14 PM

    I’m sure all the combined salaries of RTÉ’s so called “talent” would pay for these jobs. 70 extra dole payments that could probably be avoided!

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    Mute John Mc Carthy
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    Jun 21st 2011, 7:15 PM

    RTE
    If it’s one job I hate doing
    Is paying that joke of a TV license fee
    RTE are the only TV station in the western world to receive license money + revenue from advertising and they still cant make money !!
    Remember this is treated as a public sector, hence the farcical salaries.
    Talk to Joe
    I don’t think so
    Sell it or have it burned to the ground

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    Mute Gort Alainn
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    Jun 21st 2011, 7:25 PM

    Here’s crossing every extremity hoping for Prat Kenny.

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    Mute Gis Bayertz
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    Jun 21st 2011, 8:12 PM

    Wouldn’t that be great!

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    Mute Jeff Ó Conrí
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    Jun 21st 2011, 7:55 PM

    They did the same thing about 10 years ago. The same day the director general gave himself a hefty pay rise AND they took the ex-employees back as “consultants” for more money than b4!
    Quids in for everyone!!!
    Must be an Irish thing!

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    Mute Alan McBride
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    Jun 21st 2011, 11:19 PM

    Replace RoboKenny and Marty Whelan with breeze blocks-twice the charisma for little or no outlay.

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    Mute Mik Kershaw
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    Jun 22nd 2011, 12:17 PM

    This means that each person leaving has a salary of 71,500 euro just half all the wages of staff in RTE whom earn above thirty thousand they have nowhere to go except hatch three anyway the lovelies

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    Mute Tom Kavanagh
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    Jun 22nd 2011, 7:43 AM

    70 jobs will hardly dent the over 2000 featherbedded positions in RTE. And don’t forget that a large proportion of programming is commissioned out to independent production companies.

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