The plans which will be brought to Cabinet next week were hatched by officials in the Department of Finance, Public Expenditure and Communications.
RTE is set to be funded by both the existing TV licence fee along with a new “multi-annual” State payment, it’s emerged.
READ MORE: Micheál Martin was not aware of plot to kill Leo Varadkar but knew of 'threats' and 'warnings'Media Minister Catherine Martin is understood to have pushed for exchequer funding to be “multi-annual” to ensure the broadcaster remains financially secure into the future. He said: "I've said there's two ways of funding public service broadcasting in my view, there's that you go with some form of reformed licence fee model, or you go with direct exchequer fee funding.
"I want to know that whatever funding model is in place is durable and can be long-lasting and I think all of those principles can be met.” Earlier this month, we revealed RTE has lost nearly €30 million in TV licence fee revenue in the 12 months since the financial scandal rocked the broadcaster. The number of people paying the €160 TV licence fee charge decreased dramatically in the wake of the financial scandal that engulfed RTÉ last summer.
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