Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 July 2023

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

Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Noel Kelly:

I am 60. I have been brought up with RTÉ, listening to RTÉ radio and watching RTÉ. Mr. Tubridy did a good bit of work with the BBC. We went to BBC and I was expecting to be blown away by “Oh my God, this company is incredible”, but it was not that. RTÉ is a fantastic organisation with great people, great producers, directors, floor managers and people on reception. It is an amazing organisation with fabulous people. I want RTÉ to win. There is also a fantastic commercial sector here in Ireland, with Newstalk, Today FM and midlands radio, and they survive purely on commercial revenue.

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