Mr. Adrian Lynch:

First I must say that it is not a case that the staff in RTÉ can just enter into commercial agreements at all. Anything would have to be approved to begin with. The register seems like a perfectly good idea, but there is an incoming director general. Having spoken to him this week, his plan for corporate governance is that there would be deep reform.

We know that in this instance and in this actual event corporate governance has failed completely. I do not believe it is systemic within the organisation in terms of the sitting executive board. It is not systemic. I say this in terms of the controls that are in place and that are run. It is just a point I have to make that there are controls in place. In this particular instance they were overridden.