It looks like RTE don’t have a published policy document on DTT but Sarah Hegarty, RTE Corporate Communications Co-Ordinator kindly sent me the following note:

At this stage RTE has noted the Government’s call for expressions of interest in the DTT trial and welcomes the Government’s decision to carry out a trial.

RTE’s stated policy is to be platform neutral - which means that our objective is to ensure that our content is available free to air and on a universal basis to all our licence fee payers. Around 37 percent of the viewing population in Ireland rely on terrestrial television so particular consideration would have to be made to ensure that those citizens still have an opportuniy to access free to air services.

Therefore DTT as a free digital alternative to Pay TV is a proposition to be welcomed in terms of the national interest. We await the outcome of the Government-led trial.