Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If I was running RTÉ, it would be run like a business. RTÉ is funded by this Government and it is a stakeholder in it. It is supposed to be a national television station.

All they are doing is selling false information, as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have been giving to their members for many years. It is all one-sided reporting. They have no respect for the people who work in RTÉ. They are being directed by the Government on what to say and when to say it. This is what is wrong with RTÉ. I have been a supporter of RTÉ all my life but if I was to look at RTÉ as a business and see what it puts out even at Christmas, which is stuff from 50 years ago, no wonder it is being subsidised. If it were run like Virgin Media or Sky at least, it would be sustainable and progressive but it is not. RTÉ needs to tell both sides of the story not like the Government.

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