Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 February 2022
279. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if a full breakdown will be provided of payments made to RTÉ by her Department since March 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6172/22]
View answerThe principal mechanism through which my Department provides support to RTÉ is from TV Licence fee receipts. For the period from March 2020 to January 2022 this amounted to €364.8m.
Over the same period, additional funding of €1.906m was provided for the development and broadcast of Arts and Culture projects, as part of the Government's wider response to support the sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the Government agreed, alongside the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) agreement, to provide €100,000 to RTE for each of the 3 years of the agreement, as part of a broader initiative to promote Irish language broadcasting in Northern Ireland.
The full list of payments made to RTE is set out in the table under.
RTE payments March 2020 to January 2022
|
Period |
Category |
Amount€m |
Funding Type |
|
March-Dec 2020 |
Licence Fee Funding |
152.3 |
Current |
|
2021 |
Licence Fee Funding |
196.1 |
Current |
|
January 2022 |
Licence Fee Funding |
16.4 |
Current |
|
Total Licence Fee |
364.8 |
||
|
March-Dec 2020 |
Arts and Culture |
1.1 |
Current |
|
Arts and Culture |
0.071 |
Capital |
|
|
Arts and Culture |
0.033 |
Current |
|
|
2021 |
Famine Project |
0.039 |
Current |
|
Arts and Culture |
0.082 |
Current |
|
|
Arts and Culture |
0.081 |
Capital |
|
|
Decade of Centenaries |
0.500 |
Current |
|
|
Total Arts and Culture |
1.906 |
||
|
2021 |
NDNA Funding to promote Irish in NI |
0.100 |
Current |
|
Total NDNA Funding |
0.100 |
