{"id":24119,"date":"2023-07-08T21:57:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T21:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/rte-leo-varadkar-says-change-needed-at-top-of-broadcaster\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T21:57:50","slug":"rte-leo-varadkar-says-change-needed-at-top-of-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/rte-leo-varadkar-says-change-needed-at-top-of-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9: Leo Varadkar says change needed at top of broadcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar has said trust in RT\u00c9 cannot be restored without change within the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Varadkar said he understood incoming director general Kevin Bakhurst is &#8220;going to announce changes to the organisation on Monday&#8221; when he takes up the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">RT\u00c9 has been under pressure since it emerged in June that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c97n7d4dnveo\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">controversial payments amounting to \u20ac345,000 (\u00a3296,800) were made to its top presenter Ryan Tubridy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Dee Forbes resigned as director general with immediate effect on 26 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">On Saturday Mr Varadkar said he understood Mr Bakhurst&#8217;s plans included changes to &#8220;the way the management is structured and issues around conflicts of interest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Bakhurst met the Irish minister with responsibility for media, Catherine Martin, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;I am very reassured in what he [Mr Bakhurst] has said to government and it&#8217;s important that he be allowed to set out those plans on Monday and to talk to staff first and to inform the wider nation about those changes and he&#8217;s going to make them quickly,&#8221; Mr Varadkar added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He said he hoped people continued to pay the TV licence, but stated that &#8220;reform of the TV licence is long overdue and I want that to happen during this government&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cv2ne785kwno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar has said trust in RT\u00c9 cannot be restored without change within the organisation. Mr Varadkar said he understood incoming director general Kevin Bakhurst is &#8220;going to announce changes to the organisation on Monday&#8221; when he takes up the post. RT\u00c9 has been under pressure since it emerged in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[8116,84,5802,1124,10927,999,5803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24121,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}