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Simon Harris and Catherine Martin met up last week. The agenda was ostensibly to discuss issues in her multi-faceted Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. No doubt the Taoiseach had to feign interest in the basic income for the arts and other worthy ventures. But the real purpose of the meeting was to discuss where things are at with RTÉ.