Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

We recognise that in international terms RTE is an unusual hybrid of commercial and television licence funding. There is constantly an issue of balancing between the two, and generally RTE does a very good job. However, the difficulties being experienced by RTE require us to be very rigorous in examining how things are done in our national broadcaster. There is a clear time lag between how contracts are written up for high earners and how advertising revenue can suddenly plummet in a matter of months. We do not have the report. We should have the report and it is the Minister's responsibility to get the report out. I ask again why we have not got it.

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