Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

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

Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Eleanor Bleahene:

Absolutely. There are other elements. There are key functions that are clearly articulated in the scheme. Our concern with having that obligation as a legal obligation encompassed as a fiduciary obligation is that fiduciary obligations are owed to RTÉ itself by the members of the board and rearticulating them in the context of a legal obligation to reflect the interests of the wider public - and it would be the wider public because the Future of Media Commission report contextualises the term "public"-----