Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said that RTÉ cannot fall. I totally agree with her there. At the same time, we are saying that conditionality would be put in, if we are going to fund it. How do both those statements make sense? RTÉ is putting a proposal to the Minister that it is looking for extra money to keep it going. The Minister is saying these are the conditions for giving RTÉ the money, yet it knows that it will not be let fall anyway. This board does not have a wonderful reputation at the moment. How do we convince the public that we are keeping RTÉ to account when we are essentially saying we will never let RTÉ fall anyway?