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:
We are working on next year but the scale of this financial challenge is such that, as Mr. Fives has just explained, a significant amount of our cost is set costs and people so we have limited room for manoeuvre. As I explained earlier, the last thing I want to do is bring in compulsory redundancies but voluntary redundancies also have a cost attached to them so we have limited levers to pull. We are working on a contingency plan but I think it is safe to say that the size of the hole in licence fee income is extremely difficult to address on our own.
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