Finishing touches to agreement in process of being nailed down by Department of Public Expenditure and Department of Arts and Media
The TV licence fee is to be retained and supplemented by a multi-annual stream of exchequer funding in a deal close to being agreed by the Government on the future funding of RTÉ.
Minister for Arts and Media Catherine Martin was known to favour a fully State-funded model but that encountered significant resistance. There was also pushback around the suggestion of multi-annual funding, but that element has now been agreed
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