Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Sinéad GibneySinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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Nonetheless, it would provide for public trust. I encourage RTÉ to pursue it.

I will skip on to the voluntary redundancy scheme. Regarding suppressing alternative posts and redeploying staff to other roles, how will the rights of those staff staying behind be best protected, particularly in roles between TG4 and RTÉ? I also note there are no trade union representatives on the steering group being put in place to oversee the voluntary exit programme. How is this compatible with a desire to change the culture around the treatment of employees in RTÉ? Again, those questions are to Mr. Bakhurst.