Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

I can give the Deputy the latest I have, which is from yesterday. I may bring my colleague, Mr. Mullen, in on this, if the Deputy would like more detail, but we have had conversations with the agencies and commercial partners. The feedback from them is that they think we are dealing with this, they see the commercial side as business as usual and RTÉ remains a valued customer and brand for them. On the licence fee side, the latest full figures I have are for June, but clearly we want to see what has happened in the past couple of weeks. There is no point looking at one week or another-----