The government have bottled the new funding plan for RTÉ.
That's according to Sinn Fein Manorhamilton Cllr Padraig Fallon, on the newly announced €725 million funding package announced yesterday by the government.
The funding will be comprised of the TV licence fee and exchequer revenue over a three year period.
Cllr Fallon says there is a sense of entitlement coming from the national broadcaster: