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. Ian Kehoe:

Of course I would. The Cathaoirleach was asking for thoughts. It is a case of what I would have done if I knew then what I know now. Everything the board did, we did in good faith and with the best interests of the organisation in mind. If you go through the minutes of the board's meetings, which are all publicly available on the RTÉ website, and the minutes of the audit and risk committee, the programme committee and the digital committee, you will see that an awful lot of questions were continually being asked. These related to financial modelling, the future strategy, the make-up of advertising and investment in digital. Perhaps some of the questions were not appropriate and perhaps we could have asked better questions but there was a continually inquisitive process ongoing. At times, I felt a level of frustration at the quality of the answers that were coming back.

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