When the first anniversary of the RTÉ payments controversy arrives in the coming weeks, there will be no bunches of flowers but the nettle of a future funding model for the broadcaster may finally be grasped.
It has nothing to do with celebrating the successful run of a TV show or radio station. There will be no parties, cakes or balloons for this particular occasion.
Eleven months on, three reports into RTÉ were released this week designed to draw a line under the controversies and allow the Government to finally make a decision on a future funding model for public service broadcasting.A review of governance and culture found that risk management at RTÉ had been"immature" and"under resourced".
RTÉ said it accepted the reports' recommendations in principle and added that many moves are already underway to address the concerns raised. "A recent survey of our members found three out of five directors see personal or reputational risk as the main deterrent to being on a State Board," IoD Ireland said.
"I think that the most important thing is thinking about what's the underlying reason why we saw all those multiple failures of governance," Prof Suiter said. Publishing the reports this week, Ms Martin said the Cabinet will take a decision on the future funding of public service broadcasting before the summer recess but added that there are still"differences of opinion" on the issue.
"People are sick and tired of listening to the machinations of what went on in RTÉ, they want to move past it, they want to know that our national broadcaster has got its own house in order and they want the Government to finally make a decision in relation to funding," said Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin's Spokesperson for Finance.
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