RTÉ has made no agreement with the Government to defer its plan to move Lyric FM out of Limerick, director general Dee Forbes has said. But Ms Forbes told the Oireachtas communications committee on Tuesday that RTÉ had “just heard word” of the Taoiseach’s comments and was “not aware of the detail behind it”. Ms Forbes was unable to tell the committee how much RTÉ would save by relocating Lyric FM to Dublin and Cork. “That is completely untenable,” Ms Forbes told the committee. Mr Bruton said the broadcaster could benefit from a crackdown in the licence fee evasion rate in the meantime.

Source: The Irish Times December 10, 2019 18:45 UTC