Mr. Noel Curran:

I will talk personally in that regard. At the previous meeting, I said I believe that when one is in a leadership position one has to be accountable and responsible. Everyone in RTE knows I was very prepared to be accountable at that time. There was confidence at board level that I could lead the organisation through editorial, financial and other crises. The rest of the organisation and I have put every ounce of our effort into that over the last 12 months. In that time, RTE has had editorial crises, absent management figures, a financial crisis, the switch-over to digital terrestrial television from analogue and a whole range of other structural changes. We have reacted to that over the past 12 months and tried to manage it during that time. I hope we have managed that successfully.