Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020

9:30 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

As I said previously, we have extensive oversight and monitoring arrangements in regard to RTÉ, but at the same time respecting the arms length principle that it is public sector broadcasting. It is important that arms length is there. The Future of Media Commission, which was established by the Government, is looking at the longer term funding of media in Ireland, including public sector broadcasting. That includes looking at the licence fee model.