Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands
Forbairt agus Todhchaí Raidió na Gaeltachta
4:00 pm
Mr. Jim Jennings:
Out of 2,300 originally. We went back to 1,900 and we are now down at 1,800 so we have cut our costs over that period by 24%. We have lost many people and that has a huge impact on our services. For example, I said at the Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment previously that our young people's programme spending has gone from €16 million in 2009 to €4 million last year. As a public service broadcaster, alongside what is happening with the Irish language, young people's programmes and drama, arts and culture, we have a huge gap in what our public service remit is and this is part of the case that has been made by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, ourselves and the Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment to the Minister on-----
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