Ms Moya Doherty:

May I respond to that question? Of course there is huge regret over the way the recent appointments emerged and turned out. However, when new appointees come on to the board, as four did recently, we welcome them graciously. We had already signalled a concern around corporate governance, principles, ethics and morals and how we would manage them. We set up and put in place a comprehensive system to allow us to welcome all four board members and ensure we could run the board as the committee and audience would wish. All four members were warmly greeted and given time to express what they wanted to bring to the board. It was interesting and exciting. Unfortunately, there were issues around Covid-19 on the same day. We have a system in place whereby the RTÉ executive brings forward a contract for either capital spend or content spend that is over a certain amount. This is good financial control and a good system for the board. We never get to see any of the independent stuff.