Maurice

Like when you hear statements like misstatement of fees, it kind of just reminds me of back during the Moriarty Beef Tribunal, all that kind of thing, where people were told to be saying untruths rather than people actually saying they were lying, you know.

It's just, it's a turn of phrase.

And like one of your previous callers there that spoke about the health service, I mean, you can conflate both topics at the same time in the sense that

from the top down they're both toxic they have massive overruns every year they have gross mismanagement of public funds and nobody's held accountable for anything with it Would you not say that today is accountability?

I mean the people responsible for the questions are in front of a committee getting pilloried I wouldn't because a lot of the time the likes of the media oversight committee and the PAC and all that they're just paying lip service they're getting out the headlines and stuff like that but

Like, I mean, if you look back over the last 10 years, can you tell me anybody that RTE was fired for gross management or gross mismanagement of public funds or whatnot in the same sphere that they would be in the private sector?

There's been none.

You know, people walk away with...

golden handshakes the former director general isn't that they won't they refuse to come in and answer questions because all of a sudden they have health issues which they never had before they were asked to answer questions and well we don't know what health issues she's had throughout her life but certainly i wouldn't i wouldn't be naming anybody specific no but like you didn't say her name but you were it's everyone knows who you're talking about that's from the top down it's

That's from the top down, though.

It's like a whole layer of management there that literally walked away with redundancies, with extra payments, whatever you want to call it.

And who suffered then was the normal Joe Soaps and RT who were forced to take redundancy because of the decisions these people made.

But the only thing is that where is the performance in your contract?

You know what I mean?

Like, if you're in the private sector and you screw up in your job, you're going to get the sack.

It's as simple as that.

And if you're phoned to screw up in your job, you're going to get the sack.

And that's that.

It's not really true, though, is it?

Think of hundreds...