My colleague Ben asked the Minister, yesterday, how she could look the Irish people in the face and defend this situation. The answer, of course, is that she cannot, and she will not try to.
What, exactly, is the point of the television licence, if RTE is not going to behave any differently from the commercial stations that don’t receive a penny in public funding?
It might well suit the politicians to let RTÉ go insolvent.
That is the whole point of these sessions, at the end of the day: They are intended to train you how to think, and how to behave.