Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms O'Leary. As a committee it is also under our remit to nominate people to the board. Roughly 18 months ago this committee, after a long process, nominated Mr. Larry Bass to the role on the committee, which was basically rejected by the RTÉ board. Was it a case that he was not wanted on the board because he might ask the pertinent questions? For me, looking at and reading the information and the statements we have got, it is a case of throwing the outgoing DG under the bus. Do the witnesses feel, as a board in their various positions, that they are fit for their positions? Was it a case that Larry Bass, who was an extremely experienced person in media, which was the reason he was put forward by this committee, was pushed back from RTÉ? We felt he was the right person for the job who would ask the pertinent questions within the organisation but at the very first meeting he attended, he had to resign because of how we was dealt with. Is that the case?