Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The point was made that the need for commercialisation infiltrates the modus operandi of RTÉ, which is how a position like the current one is arrived at, and that a purely publicly funded model would alleviate this. However, if we look to the BBC, which has had many of the same types of governance issues, it still has a scenario of overpaid presenters, with Gary Lineker being paid £1.5 million to present "Match of the Day". The argument is for a fully publicly funded model versus a hybrid model. Does Mr. Dooley accept the contention that BBC, which works on a fully publicly funded model, finds itself in the same scenarios as RTÉ?