Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 September 2023

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

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

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

It could be sport or other live events. We have to look at everything. I am mindful we have party conferences coming up. These all cost a lot of money to cover live and they are an important part of our remit but we are now in a position where we have to make some very tough choices.

I wish to return to the Senator’s point about Emma O’Kelly and the news teams not having enough people. I am sure that is true. They work extremely hard. Going forward, we will have to make some choices as well about the programming we do and the number of services we have. If we have fewer staff, we cannot carry on doing everything we do at the moment; that is in recognition of the stretch that staff are under.

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