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:
As I said earlier, we came out and looked for 200 redundancies in 2019. The migration of the NSO will have an impact. We are now looking at an additional 60 or 70 redundancies through a voluntary programme. Why is that a lower number? Part of that is because in order to deliver all the services we currently have on air, particularly during the pandemic, we cannot afford to lose that many people or we will lose content. We know there is an audience demand for the content that we are producing across all our channels.
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