While it is increasingly evident that there has been poor corporate governance at RTÉ and a number of examples of questionable expenditure and side deals, there still remains the bigger question of how we fund public sector broadcasting into the future. In November 2017, the Oireachtas Committee on Communications published a report on the future funding of public service broadcasting which led to the government setting up a working group on TV licence collection. This group reported in April 2019, stating that “the current model of the TV licence regime does not provide the required level of sustainable and future-proofed…

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