The payment of RTÉ celebrity top talent has been a controversial topic for many years for the obvious reason that RTÉ gets most of its money from ordinary people by way of the television licence and people have certain expectations of what public service broadcasting should be and what it ought to mean. My Bill will help restore that public service remit to RTÉ. I am conscious that the joint Oireachtas committee and the Committee of Public Accounts will be continuing their deliberations regarding RTÉ and may be hearing more from the members of the RTÉ board and executive.
They also want assurances that pay at all levels in RTÉ is appropriate and reflects that the services provided by RTÉ should have, as required by the Broadcasting Act 2009, the character of a public service. The RTÉ that will emerge will be a very different RTÉ from that which has gone up to now.
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Robbie Gallagher and Joe O'Reilly; Níl, Senators Rónán Mullen and Victor Boyhan..
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