Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020
9:30 am
Ms Katherine Licken:
RTÉ has exercised great judgement and management in this regard. It has cost-cutting measures in place, and it is working to contain its costs as best as is possible. We are working closely with the organisation in that regard. I should stress that RTÉ's funding comes from the television licence fee, as set out in statute. The money that comes into our Vote is, to all intents and purposes, a pass-through. It comes in from the television licence fee and then it goes out to RTÉ.
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