Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sure you would have observed some of them as well. You would have heard reports back from those meetings and you would have been involved in preparations for them, along with Dee Forbes and other senior staff, as the head of strategy. Much play was made by the senior people at the top of RTÉ of the importance of retaining that talent. If that is the case, and you were head of strategy for five years and you have a close relationship with the director general, you are asking me to believe the area around these issues was never discussed with the director general.