Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It absolutely is more than unfortunate. I congratulate the director general, Mr. Kevin Bakhurst, and wish him well. I look forward to working with him in this committee. His credentials are extremely impressive. This question is linked to the fact that Ms Ní Raghallaigh focused a lot of her opening statement on the commercial future of RTÉ. The charge, in some circles, and as discussed in the newspapers, is that Mr. David McRedmond, who was one of the candidates, could have turned around the financial fortunes of RTÉ, given his impressive work as the chief executive officer of An Post. He turned that State body around and revolutionised its brand. The charge is that his style and grá for commercial reality did not fit within the internal ethos of RTÉ, which is why he did not get to the final fence. Is that an accurate scenario of how that played out?