Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ

Photo of Fintan WarfieldFintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for joining us. The discussion has been interesting. People want RTÉ to do this and that and everything under the sun and also want RTÉ to cut, cut, cut. They ignore the cuts RTÉ has made and introduced over the years. I am always conscious of that. If Virgin Media had a choice between Montrose and Ballymount, I think it would choose Ballymount. The assets RTÉ has should be protected and built upon. I will come back to those assets. I have what might be an unusual request relating to the land at RTÉ.

My colleague, Deputy Munster, raised the licence fee as regards the technical working group. In September, the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, said that the working group would report in November and I read in an article by Laura Slattery inThe Irish Timestoday that reform will be in place by quarter 3 of 2024. Has any progress been reported or has Ms Ní Raghallaigh been made aware of any progress around the technical working group?

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