Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I say now to the witnesses they are not doing RTÉ justice and they should take this back to the Minister because it is not personally for them and we say it to every Department. A big organisation such as RTÉ has gone to the trouble of signing off its audited accounts at the end of April. The Minister should do whatever the Minister has to do to get them out there in the public arena as soon as possible. Coming out three months later makes it look as if it took the organisation six or seven months to publish its accounts. There is no good reason for this. I am sure it only takes a few minutes. If it has these quarterly reports, there should be nothing in the financial statements of surprise to the Department. It should be a very quick process to give a memo to the Minister to get them cleared. I ask the witnesses to speed up this process. This is something we are asking across the board with regard to shortening the release of annual financial statements. RTÉ is there or thereabouts.

We have asked about the top presenters, but there is a section on the remuneration of the director general. Will the witnesses explain and refresh my memory on this? It is on page 112 and it mentions Ms Dee Forbes and Mr. Noel Curran. I take it they are operating within public sector guidelines.