A new five-year strategy for RTÉ is set to be published after staff are briefed on the plan by Director-General Kevin Bakhurst.
RTÉ is expected to give its detailed response to those recommendations today and outline when, and if, they will implement the suggested changes, if they have not done so already. The Minister for Media favours the exchequer option of funding it from general taxation, but others in Cabinet, including Tánaiste Micheál Martin, are opposed to the idea of scrapping separate funding for public service funding, amid concerns about how it might impact editorial independence.
Back in November, the 10-point plan said that RTÉ would become a smaller organisation over the next five years, with a 20% net headcount reduction or 400 people, over the period. In 2017, RTÉ sold almost nine acres of its site to developers Cairn Homes for just over €107 million.
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