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:

It will be more digital and a lot more people will be consuming digital. We are still planning for broadcasting for the next ten or 20 years. Like printed newspapers that will continue. We will need to provide a broadcasting service, but we also need to be conscious that more people will be going digital first in how they access RTÉ's output. Our focus is on making sure we get Irish content like news, sport, drama, current affairs and nationwide programming the best we can make them. Ms Howard may want to talk about the programming ambitions and if we commission more. At the moment there is a good sector out there, but it needs to be beefed up. Hopefully, our ability to commission more work will help it to be beefed up.