Ms Si?n N? Raghallaigh:

With the information we had, we acted immediately. We understood the seriousness of it. We took the steps, and we can stand over the process that we undertook in order to do that. That is our job, and we have fulfilled our job. We brought this to light. Within that, we see that even in our own process as the board, as opposed to the executive board, there are areas that we can tighten up on as well. I think that this has shaken everybody.

I am actually proud of what we did in bringing it to light. I think it has raised a lot of questions, and as I said earlier, we have to have public service broadcasting in a democracy. We have to get this right. We have to bring trust back to RTÉ, and that is our job as well, as a board. In order to do that, we have to make a lot of changes over the next while. That is what we have to do.