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:
RTÉ has worked closely with the Future of Media Commission regarding its future funding. It does not get funding directly from the Department, other than through the licence fee.
That is the mechanism by which it is funded so it does not seek funding directly from the Department. It got additional funding last year in respect of the free licences from the Department of Social Protection for pensioners. That is a long-established mechanism, but the Department does not fund RTÉ directly through any line item in its Vote, other than passing through the TV licence.