Albert Dolan

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71 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · RTE Requires €65m Bailout In 2028, Broadcaster Says · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, well, look, firstly, I hope the minister is recovering well and OK.

And I just want to say that at the outset, it's really important to say as well that public service broadcasting, you know, it has an important function.

It has an important role.

But I think what we learned today at the Public Accounts Committee is that

while RTE has come a long way since 2023 they still have a very long way to go and there was a lot of questions left unanswered today there's a lot of documents that they now have to prepare and come back to the committee with and a lot of that is going to require further scrutiny

uh when you think about it i know you mentioned at the start that they have been in these committees several times but this was the first time that they've come before the public accounts committee since their appearance in 2023 and also we are going through a transition period now where the state auditor that is the comptroller and auditor general

is preparing essentially to take over the audit of RTE.

And I do believe that when that happens, a lot more may come to light about the current operations, spending and functioning of RTE.

Yeah, well, what the government did was the government gave RTE the breathing space to go get its house in order and implement significant reforms.

And to date, we haven't seen some of those reforms come to light.

When you think about the fact that they made a commitment to undergo 400 redundancies, they've only undergone 100 today.

So in terms of their cost cutting exercises, it is concerning that Kevin Backhurst could suggest that 65 million could become the number.

From a government perspective,

I think the minister was right in January when they said that they couldn't really consider a future funding model at that point.

The government had previously rejected the idea of a device-led levy in the last government.

There's been no such proposal brought forward by this government.

And really, from a government perspective, we cannot...

simply sign a blank check unless we can be sure that there's clear evidence that the governance reforms that were promised in 2023 come through.

And I'm not sure that RTE have got to that point yet.

And it goes back to the old saying of how you do anything is how you do everything.

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