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- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: So for half a year, for the remainder of 2023, it would be about €100,000.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: We have lost €20 million in licence fee revenue since this started. It is a small outlet for a huge return. Would you not have thought of pivoting the message? It is not just RTÉ that benefits. Independent broadcasters and production companies from this too. You pulled the advertising. Was this strategic? Was it part of hoping that the licence fee would ultimately fail...
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: -----and that you will ultimately get what you were looking for?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Was pivoting the message to say that it is not just RTÉ but independent producers working and living in people's areas and their local broadcasters considered as an alternative message?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: You did not refer to the fact that it is not just RTÉ that benefits.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: There is such a huge amount of income at stake and you made this unbelievable decision to pull advertising completely on RTÉ's lifeblood.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: If you are in the private sector and things are going against you, you dig in, you fight and you try to claw back your revenue.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Can you see why someone might think, when you have been trying to get rid of the licence for years and it has now fallen off a cliff, that you have thought to let it burn?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: What about the independent producers and broadcasters who also benefit? Were they considered at all?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I believe you have decided to bring them back from 20 February on other platforms.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Why was that decision made?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: Why now?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I am not so sure, because the licence fee renewal figures for January still show, on average, per day, a 19% reduction from January 2023.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: That is because you are counting an extra working day. There were 23 working days in January.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I have looked through them too. I got the 8% figure and a 19% figure. I believe the 19% figure.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: You can massage it whatever way you want.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: I am going off the figures I have. I think it is incredible that you made this decision. Was this decision run by the board, given how much was at stake?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: And the board agreed this?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: When you were before the committee in September and licence fees came up, why was it not communicated to us here that you had decided to pull advertising?
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Brendan Griffin: We keep getting answers of the witnesses not being asked about it.