Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
RTE: Governance Issues
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:
Yes, we do. People are aware we did a lot of work on trying to maintain the regional presence in the face of severe financial challenges. We shut the London operation ahead of shutting any of the regional operations. We now have a different model across the regions. Several of them have re-based and are working in institutes of technology. We are working in partnership with the institutes of technology.
We are in the Hynes Building in Galway. We have a relatively long lease still to go on that. Some programmes have moved out. There are more people from Nuacht working there from time to time as well. Therefore, other people have moved in. We used a little bit of money last year and this year to reinforce the crewing for the correspondents, Pat McGrath and Teresa Mannion. We have quite a strong presence in the west when one considers Galway and the Nuacht crews and newsroom which is there as well. I go down there quite a lot because many of my staff are based in the west. There is a high level of commitment. The Nuacht teams work on both Irish language and English language news output. We therefore have quite a lot of people there. It is an important part of the country to us.
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