Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ

Mr. Terence O'Rourke:

No. We are very clear that we have a job to do. We are very focused on doing that job. The reports have been an excellent way of giving us a roadmap ahead. To be fair, for a lot of the things the reports have come with or highlighted, Kevin Bakhurst and his team are already implementing many of them because there are pretty obvious shortcomings, as members saw earlier, which need to be addressed. That complete package is set out in the report. We will work very hard on those.

Our strategy is very important. Whatever the issues in RTÉ over the last year, RTÉ has bigger issues in terms of transforming it to be fit public service media for the next decade and next years ahead, which is completely different from the RTÉ of 20 years ago. It is a process of transformation. Montrose is going to be changed. There will be different production facilities. There will be much more outsourcing and much more digital. It is going to be a changed world. We have got a huge job to do, and to govern it properly and financially control it well. The biggest issue I have is to fulfil the remit that the Oireachtas has asked RTÉ to do. We have got a big job to do. We have a big ambitious job to do as best we can. We have got to have the right funding in place and we have got to govern it properly. They are the things that we are focused on, as a board.

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