Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate Ms Ní Raghallaigh on her new position. I wish her the best of luck with it. I also wish Mr. Kevin Bakhurst the best of luck in his new role. I congratulate Ms Dee Forbes as well, the outgoing director general. She spends a lot of time in Glandore in my constituency. I am sure she will now be spending much more time there, so I expect to see much more of her down there. I wish her the best of luck too.

At these meetings, we are obviously going to hear some criticisms of RTÉ. This is the nature of these things. I wish to point out, though, the things the organisation still does very well. It is still the best in the business in many areas. It is certainly up there in terms of current affairs programming and covering big events, such as the recent visit of President Biden, which provided some fantastic public service television. Some sports coverage is also excellent. I am thinking in particular of some of the coverage of the Olympics, which can be excellent. That is to point out the things RTÉ does very well.

At the same time, An Post in 2021 collected approximately €200 million to €300 million in television licence fees and most of this money would have gone to RTÉ. There is, therefore, an expectation here for the level of programming that we expect to see in this context. How often does the board meet?