Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Jonathan Ruane:
My colleagues have said enough in terms of the debacle being focused on today. The one thing I would like to add relates to the importance, looking forward, of resolving the funding. We are entering into an election cycle in Ireland. The RTÉ News app is the number one used app in the country, but it is ten years old. RTÉ does not have the resources to invest in really important digital infrastructure. At our last board meeting, within the last fortnight, we heard about buildings that are literally crumbling. Getting this funding in place, backing Mr. Bakhurst and the team, and enabling RTÉ to move on from these difficult situations, is what I, like most other board members are, am focused on.
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