“Our intention would be to publish the 2020 Top 10 earnings in due course this year.” “We always publish (top salaries) two years in arrears,” Ms O’Shea said. This leaves 117 individuals who earn a minimum of €100,000 a year. Of the station’s 1,866 direct employees, the vast majority – 1,749 – earn less than that figure annually. Nearly 10pc of RTÉ employees earn €100,000 a year, or more. “A new household broadcasting charge is totally the wrong way to go and would face a major campaign of opposition and boycott.” 4) RTÉ is still slow to reveal the salaries of its top earnersĪ target of a 15pc reduction in top star salaries was achieved in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, politicians were told.įiona O’Shea, the RTÉ group financial controller, said statistics on 2020 top earner salaries would be released “in due course” during 2023. “A new tax on the tech media giants who have made incredible profits during the pandemic is the best way to increase funding for public broadcasting,” Mr Barry said. He instead supports a new tax on tech media giants as an alternative way to fund public broadcasting in the State. Green TD Neasa Hourigan said de-funding of the station would only serve populists, conspiracy theorists and the far right – yet Socialist Party TD Mick Barry has separately opposed a new household broadcasting charge, saying its introduction would result “in a major campaign of opposition and boycott”.
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Its public service TV is funded through a “tax-based system”, as is the case with other Nordic countries, she said. She told FF TD Cormac Devlin that Finland, with a similar population to Ireland, was “a place to look at”. The latter category has increased five-fold since 2011, when it stood at 3pc nationally.
She said the evasion rate with the €160 a year licence fee rose to 15.2pc in 2020, while at the same time15.1pc of households no longer had a television, although they may be streaming on devices. “If you are in a non-TV household and watching the RTÉ player, or listening to RTÉ radio, the current Broadcasting Act says that’s okay,” the DG commented. Ms Forbes said an increase in the licence fee, without maximisation of collection and compliance, would be “unjust” on those who were paying, she s aid.īut the fact was that there was an indicated shortfall in licence fee revenue of €65m – the same figure as its accumulated borrowings. Three in 10 households are currently not paying – half of them legitimately because they don’t have a TV, although they may have other devices. She said the station had argued instead for reform of the collection system. Ms Forbes emphasised that RTÉ was not seeking an increase in the €160 annual licence fee, which has not been raised since 2013.
It is just not where it needs to be, he added. James O’Connor of Fianna Fáil said the Player was “a disgrace”. Social Democrats co-leader Catherine said she had tried it herself and regularly gave up in frustration. “I’ll be honest with you, we don't have the resources nor the money of some of the streamers or the likes of Channel Four where they have invested significantly in this.” What was needed to make it fit for purpose was “significantly more than we're spending now”. The station was allocating monies in continually upgrading the Player, she said. The Player has stabilised a lot in the last year, Dee Forbes told the Public Accounts Committee. RTÉ is committed to ironing out “issues” with its Player streaming service, the station’s head has said. Here’s what we learned: 1) It knows there are major problems with the RTÉ Player Director general of the national broadcaster, Dee Forbes, met today with the Public Accounts Committee and discussed the licence fee collection system among other things.