Government patience with RTE is running low, minister warns

Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris (PA)

Government patience with RTE is running low and the broadcaster’s incoming director general must make clear on day one that changes will happen, a minister has warned.

Higher education minister Simon Harris said Kevin Bakhurst must also make it a priority to engage with staff, saying he was “flabbergasted” that current executives had not done so two weeks on from the start of the crisis engulfing the national broadcaster.