Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

I thank the Deputy. The review is ongoing. We engage with RTÉ across a range of issues. Obviously, it is an operational matter for RTÉ itself. There are 160 different grades in RTÉ so it is complex. I know representatives from RTÉ appeared before various committees on this matter. The chair in April confirmed that the pay parity between the Irish-language workers and their English-language counterparts would be dealt with in the review. We understand that the review will be due in the coming months, possibly September. Ms Quill might want to comment a bit further.