RTÉ needs to regain public trust before the Government considers funding to help with shortfalls occurring at the broadcaster, the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee has said.
Brian Stanley said cost-cutting measures need to be implemented and transparency improved.
Speaking on RTÉ's News at One, the Sinn Féin TD said RTÉ "need to get their act together...in terms of restoring trust and transparency in the station".
He said the flow of information to the RTÉ Board was "clearly, to be charitable, deficient" and "probably non-existent in some cases".
Mr Stanley said this needed to change and there should be a full flow of information on any significant matters, particularly about corporate governance and financial matters.
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Earlier, Minister for Finance Michael McGrath said that before the Government commits additional taxpayers' money to RTÉ, it wants "an assurance that the culture has changed and that it is being run in a better way".
Mr McGrath said the funding question needs to be seen in two parts.
The immediate issue that arises in the context of the Budget "relates to interim funding, and the need to ensure that RTÉ's core work can be sustained as a public service broadcaster," he said.
He added that Minister for Media Catherine Martin and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe are in negotiations in relation to that.
Mr McGrath said that they will have the benefit of NewEra because he has extended its remit to cover RTÉ.
Mr McGrath said that there is also a need for a longer term "sustainable funding model" for RTÉ and for public service broadcasting generally, adding that that decision will be made "in the coming months".
The minister said: "I do think it's important that we see the work through of the various investigations that are under way. The two external reviews, and we want to see a culture change and we want to see the leadership rebuild trust confidence in the organisation."
Last Thursday, RTÉ's Director General Kevin Bakhurst announced that contract negotiations with Ryan Tubridy had ended.
Mr Tubridy had been off-air since 22 June, when controversy over the under-declaration of his salary by RTÉ was first revealed.
RTÉ has suffered a steep fall in TV licence revenue since the controversy broke in June. RTÉ receives the vast majority of TV licence fee revenue at nearly 90% of sales.
