Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Having led Ms Forbes up that path, let me now be more critical. One of my greatest criticisms of RTÉ is its complete lack of any sort of effective regional radio or television coverage for the Dublin market. The BBC managed to maintain two local radio stations on this island. RTÉ does not do that for the main capital city. Given that Ms Forbes has provided details around platforms, which allow local content or specific content to be provided through 2XM or Radio Gold, I cannot see why an RTÉ Dublin station could not be provided. As a politician, I am envious of the local radio stations that my colleagues have right across the country. RTÉ seems to believe that coverage in Dublin is national and that regional is everything outside of the M50. There is almost no Dublin-specific content.

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