Our policy will enact the following changes. The link below allows access to the full policy document.
-Scrap the regressive TV licence fee.
-End advertising and sponsorships by RTÉ.
-Increase public funding for RTE to €500m, including a rapid modernisation budget for capital expenditure, and allocate a further €500m in public funding for other public media organisations.
-Raise €500m through a 1% tax on all information & communications companies.
-Raise a further €500m through an additional 1.25% Big Tech Tax on the largest ICT companies.
-Cap pay to end big six-figure salaries for the few.
-End ‘bogus self-employment’ and poverty pay and conditions; mandatory trade union recognition.
-Democratise RTÉ: replace the current Board to make it representative of RTÉ workers and civil society, with Board members subject to recall.
RTÉ and Public Media Policy
People Before Profit’s radical plan to to transform RTÉ and public media will mean an 'RTÉ for the People'. The plan rests on a number of key policy points based a revolutionary funding change to finance public media corporate tax rather and to scrap the regressive TV license.
