Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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There will be a second round, if the Deputy wants to come back in again. I have some questions myself. I want to start with RTÉ. There were performance commitments that were linked to the revised strategy for 2024 that was presented to the Government four years ago to address some of the sustainability issues that RTÉ faces. There were six different commitments. Looking at them, RTÉ has stated that it did not achieve 12 out of the 32 the target measures at all, amounting to a failure rate of almost 38%. Nine other target measures were largely achieved, but not fully achieved, which means that it did not meet 59% of targets that it had set itself at the time. That is the context that I am asking these questions in. In relation to the funding of RTÉ, the committee has held a number of hearings with the organisation because there is a voted expenditure from the Oireachtas as well. How does the Department monitor RTÉ's performance commitments that are linked to the 2024 strategy that was presented to Government back then? How is that done? I ask the witnesses to keep it brief.