Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion

Mr. Adrian Lynch:

I am splitting out the questions. There is the actual financial number and we are going to achieve that this year. That will be done through very good cost management and changes within the schedule. We have also had some deferral of big sporting events, for example, into 2021. That number will be delivered on. We will deliver our target number over the coming years out to 2023.

On the 200 redundancies, as members are aware and as the Minister has discussed, several of the redundancies will come from the National Symphony Orchestra, NSO. I think 73 of its members are leaving RTÉ. On top of that, in January we will open a voluntary exit package and will be seeking 60 to 70 exits at that point. Why are we looking for a slightly reduced number of exits? Part of it is because we have been delivering such significant output and we have significantly changed the way we are working. With so much remote working, we really see that we need to keep these essential services on air. We need to make sure we are able to bolster that and deliver it-----

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