Kevin Bakhurst is expected to publicly outline his plans to ‘restore trust’ in the national broadcaster
“The only thing I’ll say to people is it’s time for action now, that’s all we need.”
“I understand that the new director general Kevin Bakhurst is going to make some announcements on Monday in relation to changes to the organisation, the way the management is structured and also is going to deal with issues around conflicts of interest. “It’s a really old fashioned way of collecting revenue based on ownership of a TV, a device that many people just don’t have any more, and almost all the money goes to RTÉ even though there are many other bodies involved in broadcasting outside public service broadcasting,” Mr Varadkar said.
The furore around RTÉ’s failure to disclose €345,000 of additional payments to former Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy between 2017 and 2022 has since widened.
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