Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Future Funding of Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion

Ms Breda O'Keeffe:

Yes. We want to cut roughly €20 million per annum, of which between €9 million and €10 million will come from reductions in content and services. Roughly the same amount will come from personnel-related operating costs. We are also looking at cutting non-personnel-related operating costs by running tighter procurement processes, changing our travel and subsistence policies and various other things. We have significantly reduced those costs over the year in the interest of maintaining employment. In those other areas of cost reduction, we have sought quite-----