Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have done the sums and I have worked out that when RTÉ is cashing it out, it is losing about 54% in purchasing power. I sat here and held up the list. I had many places highlighted, but no one was arguing that with the barter account, not everything there was surplus to requirements. There were certain things that were useful and would be used in the ordinary day-to-day running. I refer to things that could reasonably be expected to be incurred for the ordinary day-to-day running of the organisation. By taking the policy that RTÉ has taken now, if we are starting with over €1 million, is it effectively losing out on significant purchasing power of possibly €500,000? This goes back to the baby with the bathwater analogy mentioned earlier.