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- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do not think RTÉ gets that out there enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am here a few years and I never heard that. Obviously we all know there is a big differential, but I am taken aback at the level of differential. RTÉ needs to get this type of information out. RTÉ can state it can run away on this cheaply bought in stuff but that if people want Irish content, this is what is required. There is no harm in starting to put some of this out there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: To explain, so the people who are watching us know what we are talking about, section 481 is the Finance Act provision with regard to tax relief for film production.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: They are the exceptions. "Love/Hate" was expensive.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is, however, authentic Ireland to an extent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will the witnesses give us an indication of the programme that was on Sunday nights, "Dancing with the Stars"? I am sure that had a very big viewership.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am only asking about the cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Please do not do that to me. I am not talking about content, I am talking about cost. It is a franchise, so how does that work? If there is an outstanding programme-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Will the witnesses explain the cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: This is what the witnesses are here to talk about. They made a very strong pitch financially, and by God they are giving it everything here with regard to the licence fee. The other half of this is the cost of output and this is a fundamental part of our discussion. Will the witnesses talk about the funding and cost model of "Dancing with the Stars", and not the lovely costumes and dancing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Yes, I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Is it profitable for RTÉ to air it in terms of the advertising it gets and the viewership?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: This is why we are here. We are the Committee of Public Accounts. These are the questions we ask.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I am going to ask the witnesses to send us as much information as they can, subject to commercial sensitivity.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I do believe it would help RTÉ's case to put it out there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: To explain NewERA, it is a holding company for the Minister for Finance for his shareholding in some of the State companies. Did it come in on a consultancy basis?
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: It is just when we use such words people do not understand them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: More for less. We have heard that phrase.
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: I will ask the witnesses to share with us and send on as much of the full report as they can, because if there is information such as this in there and RTÉ is making a case on its financial stability, it needs to be out there because that is what the people see. People give out about the €160, and I know RTÉ regularly shows what we get for the licence fee and I understand...
- Public Accounts Committee: Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (3 May 2018)
Seán Fleming: Approximately how long to do witnesses expect this to take? Is it a week or two or three weeks?