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

When RTE brought 41 workers to Chechya for the match at a cost of 50 something thousand, the problem there was

how is it now that they've been able to bring only six people to the entirety of the world cup and and in fairness they're doing a great job of covering the world cup and there's great excitement and fanfare and but how is it that it took 41 people to go and cover one game in chechya and now we only have six people covering the entirety of 104 games of the world cup and i think it's that sort of small stuff that sends signals to government that you know this is unacceptable is it

Yeah, well, it's down to their funding model, as you've outlined, and we've seen a decrease in the TV licenses in the last four years to the tune of 200,000 licenses.

So there's going to have to be a justification from RTE for their public service

and for what they're doing as a public entity trying to provide independent news and media.

So what you're thinking there really is that their funding would likely have to be tied to a demonstrable public service, whether it's through news, through Irish language, through regional output, through children's programming,

uh you know so that that is how their justification for any future funding is going to have to come about now i'm not in a position today to say what the answer is going to be that will be for the the minister and cabinet and government to decide but i do believe that the funding model is going to have to be figured out um and and that rt will have to continue uh but they're going to have to show serious goodwill and they're going to have to show serious uh reforms in reducing their expenditure and reducing the the some of the wasters that we've seen in previous years

The Claire Byrne Show · Is our tax money being spent well? · 13 May 2026 podcast

The Irish state collected €106 billion in taxes last year.

Not €106 million, €106 billion.

And we've heard recently about the half a billion euro earned in fuel taxes that had yet to be spent.

Only yesterday we heard about the bumper carbon tax revenue that will be collected this year.

So the big question we're asking today is, is our tax money being well spent?

And I'm joined in the studio by Albert Dolan, who is Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East and on the line by Dan O'Brien, Chief Economist with the Institute of International and European Affairs and columnist with The Currency.

And you're both welcome to the programme.

Albert, I'm going to begin with you because you've taken on this project where you're trying to show people exactly how the money is being spent.

Tell me how that works.

That's key that you say force efficiencies.

So you've come at this from a place where you believe the system is not efficient, that there isn't accountability and that there is wastage.

And I see that you've written a Substack article about this and you have juxtaposed those two questions that the public would say, is this value for money?

The civil servant will say, did I follow the processes?

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