Media minister Catherine Martin backs taxpayer funding to replace RTÉ licence fee despite ‘various opinions’ at Cabinet

Media Minister Catherine Martin. Photo: Collins

Maeve McTaggart

Media minister Catherine Martin has acknowledged there are “various opinions at the Cabinet table” when it comes to the future funding model for public broadcasting, but she believes the Exchequer funding model should be considered.

Three reports into governance at RTÉ were published yesterday, after which Ms Martin met with the RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst and board chair Terence O’Rourke, where they accepted the recommendations put forward.