Mr. Jim Jennings:

I was in RTÉ when that editorial crisis happened. As the committee is aware, there was a thorough review of the editorial process within RTÉ. There were new editorial guidelines put in place. There was an editorial standards board, as the director-general said, put in place to deal with these issues.

We value and invest a lot of money and resources into investigative journalism. We are one of the few companies on this island that does this. We value it highly. If one looks at our output from the RTÉ Investigations Unit over the last few years, many of these programmes and their outcome have been debated in the Houses. It is really important in terms of public service broadcasting. It is something that we support wholeheartedly. There are some challenging decisions. One has robust debates, editorially, with lawyers and with the teams. As the director-general said, there is a structure in place and if editorial issues need to be escalated, they will be. Legal advice is legal advice and, ultimately, an editorial decision will be taken on these programmes.