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RTÉ restores board member fees amid wide-ranging cutbacks

Siún Ní Raghallaigh, incoming chair of the board, will receive €31,500

RTÉ’s headquarters in Donnybrook, Dublin: individual board member fees had been waived since 2020. Picture: Collins

RTÉ’s board members have opted to take their €15,750 fees, ending the decision to waive them, at a time when the national broadcaster is making sweeping cutbacks to tackle its financial crisis.

A spokesman confirmed to the Business Post that the payment of individual fees to board members has been restored for the first time since they were waived in 2020. The chair of the board will receive €31,500.

The board is made up of ...