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

Mr. Richard Collins:

As stated by Ms Forbes, there were three pillars to this strategy. Two of them were under our control, that is, the commercial revenue and the cost containment. We have delivered on those. The outstanding matter is the public funding. There is a big gap. In terms of television licence fee income, for the past three years it has been running at approximately €196 million. The BAI recommended that it go to €220 million, which means there is a €24 million gap. If that is not closed, when the world returns to normality again RTÉ will be back to running deficits if it continues to provide all of the services it provides currently. That is the main issue that is hanging over us at the moment.

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