Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ

Mr. Terence O'Rourke:

RTÉ is absolutely committed to upholding the law, and any breaches of the law that have occurred need to be rectified and dealt with. I have no qualms about that. It is absolutely the right thing to do to make sure we comply with the law. As I said, there are discussions with the Department of Social Protection because there are grey areas where the legal people reading the laws enacted by the Oireachtas have different interpretations of what those laws mean, so there are complex grey areas. Those are the areas on which we are in discussion with the Department of Social Protection, because we want to get it right and it wants to get it right. That will need a collaborative process, on which, as I understand it, Ms Cusack is working very well at the moment. We are determined to get them right. Any breaches of the law will be rectified. We do not want to break any laws and anywhere that has happened in the past will be dealt with.