RTÉ's Director General Kevin Bakhurst will tell an Oireachtas committee this afternoon that "significant work remains" in terms of reform of the broadcaster. RTÉ is appearing before the Oireachtas Committee on Media following the Government's decision to withhold funding from it. Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O'Donovan confirmed that the broadcaster is to receive less funding than envisaged in Budget 2027 due to his dissatisfaction with what he called the.