RTÉ funding snub not a good look for Patrick O’Donovan
Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan

RTÉ funding snub not a good look for Patrick O’Donovan

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 202646 min
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Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics: The fallout from Budget 2027 has been minimal, save for Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan’s eleventh-hour decision to cut State subvention to RTÉ by €20 million. Having seen his department pre-budget demands not being met, the Minister warned that the Government – not just his department - “will renege on the three-year funding deal agreed with RTÉ in July 2024”. Unlike O’Donovan, Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers saw his political capital augment this week. It took a giveaway budge...

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You're listening to The Irish Times. It's Friday, October the 9th and you're very welcome to the Inside Politics Wrap of the Week. From The Irish Times, I'm Hugh Linnahan, Harry McGee and Pat Lee. He joined me today in studio. Hello to you both. Hello Hugh.

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Budget, budget, budget, budget, budget. We're all a bit budgeted out, Harry. But there is a story which has been the lead story in The Irish Times for the last two days. It It relates to a sum of money, €20 million. I did a rough calculation as to what proportion that is of the €125 billion budget. I think it came to something like 0.002% of the whole

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thing. So, why has this €20 million assumed such a large presence in the whole debate? Well, I think if you go into the nursery that is the Department of Media and Culture and find the pram, I think you might find quite a few toys strewn around the floor in the vicinity of the pram. I think myself, and I could be completely wrong on this, and Pat might correct

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