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

Ms Dee Forbes:

I will ask Ms O'Shea to comment on the last meeting. In the revised strategy, we committed to reducing our operating costs by a further €60 million over a period of time. We are still committed to doing that but the make-up of how we do it will be different from when the strategy was published because 2019 seems like forever ago and the world has changed completely. There are a number of things we had planned to do that did not happen for whatever reason and there are a number of things that have simply been delayed or were not possible. However, we are committed to saving that money in that period. The important thing to bear in mind that we mentioned all the way through is that three things need to happen for there to be a sustainable RTÉ. First, public funding needs to be rectified. Second, our costs need to reduce. Third, our commercial revenue needs to stabilise. Those three things are all important in the mix for us to get to that place. I ask Ms O'Shea to talk about the engagement with NewERA, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

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