Some suggestions for RTE:
RTE salaries are way out of whack with reality. Given the audience size and revenue of the station, you would expect that no presenter would earning more than c.€150k per annum and that they vast majority of full time presenters i.e. working 5 days a week, would be in the 50-100k range.
A friend of mine who works in broadcasting in the UK says that RTE is way over staffed with hangers on and people who seem to stand around all day with nothing to do. Says they could easily operate on about 25% of the production staff - should be less people working on each show and more people working on multiple shows per week as is the case in most UK stations including the BBC.
TG4 - total waste money. Most of their useful programing could be accommodated on either RTE 1 or 2 in place of cheap imported rubbish.
Studios in Cork, Galway (incl. TG4 studios) etc. - not necessary. Ireland is a small country, you can day trip to Dublin from anywhere. Save this expense and make more use of the Donnybrook studios.
Why is taxpayers money being used to purchase Eastenders etc. (probably at v. high cost) when 99% of people can watch it on the BBC without the ad breaks? RTE should not buy any programmes that can be viewed by the vast majority of Irish people on other channels.
Ditto for sporting events - some common sense. If ITV is shown a particular Champions League fixture, if you want to show the Champions League, show a different fixture so that people have a choice. Why do RTE always show the same match as someone else?
As for TV3 - they should merge wth UTV, broadcast on 1 channel and call themselves ITV-Ireland. What is the point in broadcasting the same stuff (except for local news) on multiple channels?