Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

As the Deputy will already be aware, a lot of our content is already being made in the independent sector. Apart from "Fair City", all of our drama is made by independent contractors, as are many of our documentaries. Yes, we are putting Christian religious programmes out to tender as well. We hope to get a different and a better product from that. We will need to be making more programmes in the independent sector. Regarding the corporate functions like HR and so on, following one of the recommendations from the expert advisory committee, we have looked at our internal audit. We are now doing that as sort of a partnership with one of the big accounting firms. We still have an internal audit function but instead of doing it all internally, we are using one of the big firms, which I understand is best practice and was recommended in the expert advisory committee report.

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