Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion

Ms Breda O'Keeffe:

We developed our strategy in line with the recommendations of the BAI. The BAI recommended that RTÉ would immediately receive €30 million, but it did not restrict it at that. It said RTÉ should immediately receive at least €30 million of public funding, and then it would consider additional public funding beyond that. That was what we based our plan on, which was the recommendation from our regulator. Roughly, €10 million has been reversed, in terms of the cuts in previous years, as Ms Cronin outlined, and €10 million from today, which will deliver about €9 million to ourselves. That leaves a gap of somewhere between €10 million and €12 million.

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