Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
12:30 pm
Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I welcome the officials from the Department and the guests from RTÉ who are before us. I acknowledge Ms Forbes and the staff in RTÉ, who have demonstrated a clear public purpose during the Covid-19 crisis as an essential service bringing our nation together. RTÉ did a tremendous job across all services in continuing with live broadcasts, and as Deputy Devlin said, in bringing new programmes forward, especially "Home School Hub", "Ireland on Call" and "RTÉ Investigates". Well done on that and I am sure these achievements were not easy, especially against the backdrop of extreme financial uncertainty.
Ms Forbes mentioned the deficit of €7.2 million in 2018 from the annual accounts in her opening statements. It was recorded as €12.6 million. Can Ms Forbes give us some information on the expected deficit for 2020?
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