Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 November 2017
102. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office included the debts of RTÉ on the State balance sheet in view of the fact that the majority of income in RTÉ is received from the Government following collection of TV licence fees and that this has been the case for a number of years. [49020/17]
View answerRTÉ is currently classified in the General Government sector and consequently all of its revenue, expenditure, assets and liabilities are included in the government finance statistics produced by the CSO. This classification was applied in 2012 with retrospective effect to 2009, following a routine review by CSO of the market nature of RTÉ. All bodies classified to the General Government sector are listed in the Register of Public Sector Bodies in Ireland published by the CSO which is available at http://www.cso.ie/en/methods/nationalaccounts/classificationdecisions/registerofpublicsectorbodiesinireland/.
