The new season on RTɪr starts on September 30, across TV, online and radio. RTɪr continues on its own single channel and on RTɲ. With a tiny budget of less than 7.1million RTɪr are trying to deliver programming to the under 6s that will Ground-breaking series giving insight into autism leads off new programming feature \\\\

In late 2016 RTÉjr;announced its decision, to as they put it, outsource children's programming. This caused some uproar about what appeared to be the dropping of Children's programming. It was strange to see that RTɠhad used the word outsource, in TV terms it would usually be put down as comissioning. With the uproar in the media about outsourcing RTɠslightly back tracked on some of the staff they were planning to make redundant and they were clear to say that they were not cutting funding for Children's Programming. According to their 2015 Annual Report just under 10 million was spent on Children's, they 2016 annual report had yet to be produced, in mid-2017 it showed that RT Ehad cut funding for children's programming by 25%.