Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

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

Expert Advisory Committee Reports into RTÉ: Raidió Teilifís Éireann

7:00 pm

Mr. Richard Waghorn:

Yes. We continually invest in our digital products, because that is the nature of the beast. The reliability of the RTÉ Player over the past few years has definitely gotten much better. We have been focused on improving its performance since it was relaunched in 2018.

What is exciting about this strategy is that, with the consolidation on site, we can think differently around some of the facilities we need to provide on site. We can invest in more modern technology that would help us to be more efficient, introduce new workflows and be much more flexible.

This is all in the context of the fact we only spend about €9 million a year on capital within the organisation on technology, digital projects and including the transmission network. With €9 million, when there is an asset base including transmission close to €200 million, you have to sweat your assets and infrastructure. With this strategy, we will be rethinking how we supply much of the technology to the organisation with the new facilities and try to do it at a slightly smaller footprint of our technology estate than we have today. It is an area we need to continually invest in. I have been saying to Mr. Bakhurst and the team that we need to have more resources in the technology space, and the strategy sets that out.

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