Top RTÉ executives must be full of self-importance

RTÉ EXECUTIVES (and many other well-paid suits) will argue their expenses are within the normal range, if not below, for similarly sized companies. This doesn’t really help their argument on ‘cutting the fat’ or their pleas for ‘more money’. (RTÉ crisis, Mail On Sunday,

April 14).

For many people in an era of high inflation, €160 for a TV licence is a lot of money, and having seen the continuous spending at RTÉ it makes many people feel like complete outsiders compared to an organisation that seems to take the spending of €160 on a round of drinks so lightly.

Imagine how full of your own importance you must be to take on a well-paying executive job and then to insist that RTÉ pays for your flights every three or so months, or that when you take a job in the national broadcaster that you receive a moving fee for your trouble, or perhaps you insist that after a few short years on the payroll you should get some money to exit – all while running the national public service broadcaster into the ground and telling the audience that ‘they just don’t understand the costs’.

You’d feel sorry for these wellpaid executives who now have the bothersome task of having to explain all of this to the public.

Éamonn Geoghegan,

Co. Westmeath.

...ONE wonders if the RTÉ television licence fee has run its course. It now seems that more and more households are accessing much of their content online. This means citizens are being asked to pay for a service that most of us rarely use.

I suggest abolishing the licence fee as it’s now becoming moribund.

John O’Brien, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.