Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank our witnesses for being here today. In particular, I thank the representatives of RTÉ for "Home School Hub" which has been a lifesaver for many people.

I take from Ms Forbes's opening remarks that we have a big structural funding problem with RTÉ, which is accessed by 94% of people and 90% of people choose RTÉ as their main news source. It is clearly in a dominant market position but experiencing a structural funding problem. Ms Forbes is suggesting the solution to that is a need for increased public funding and reform to the TV licence, which I know has formed a strong part of RTÉ's communications for many years.

I have broader concerns on the structural funding problem that I want to go through with Ms Forbes in some detail. I feel there is an over focus on the licence fee as a possible solution to RTÉ's financial difficulties. I have some questions to pose that might help me to better understand the situation. At what stage did RTÉ cease to be on the temporary wage subsidy scheme, TWSS?