Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is a really good way to conclude. Mr. Shortt will know from hearing my colleagues in the room today that every one of us support and want to support and want to see RTÉ in very good stead into the future because we know how important our public broadcaster is to democracy, which is much bigger than RTÉ or any of us in this room. We know that RTÉ is key to all of that. I ask Mr. Shortt to relay our thoughts and, more importantly, our actions to the staff. We very much intend to act on what has been deciphered here today.

I appeal to the executive. There has been a lot of unanswered questions, and additional information has been requested by various committee members. The clerk to the committee has been taking notes frantically and furiously. As for what has been asked of the executive regarding additional information, I ask that there be no more concealment of information and that it be given fully, freely, and as quickly as possible to the committee in order that we can continue with our deliberations.

I am also very mindful of the fact that a few key people have been mentioned and discussed and not in any defamatory way, I hope. I hope everybody feels they were fairly treated today. I will have a discussion with my colleagues who have had to attend various other meetings and we will have a follow-up private meeting. I will recommend that the committee also invites NK Management because it is key to all of this. The committee will invite Mr. Ryan Tubridy. The invitation still stands to Mr. Jim Jennings and I ask that the point be reiterated that this committee stands ready to meet with him whenever he is in a position to do so. The committee will continue to extend our invitation to Ms Dee Forbes when she is fit to attend.

There is a lot of work to be done by this committee. It can help with and facilitate what RTÉ needs to do here and the committee will continue to do that but we need your forthrightness, we need the accountability and the transparency to be able to do our work.

That concludes the business of the joint committee. We will adjournsine dieand meet in private following the meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts to which we will all listen attentively tomorrow. From there, the committee will decide what the next steps are. Go raibh míle maith ag gach duine.