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:

That is a good question. There are many changes afoot. One of the things that is called out in both the governance report as well as the report on HR is the underfunding of RTÉ. RTÉ did not have enough resources in place to deal with the issues. For example, our HR systems were wholly inadequate. We are trying to research some of the issues we have been talking about and it is has been difficult to get information because it has been a manual and a poor system. Therefore, we have already commissioned a whole new HR system. We have agreed to augment and add more people in a time when we have to try to be very prudent about resources. We have agreed to strengthen the HR team. I am talking about this with the director general, Kevin Bakhurst. He is happy that he has the resource and management in place to execute the improvements in the HR side that we need to do, so that is-----