Mr. Robert Shortt:

I am sorry; I will go some way to answering that. There is also accountability to the public and accountability to what RTÉ stands for, which is the truth. I know that may be difficult for people to accept given everything that has been happening, but as far as staff are concerned, that is very much what we understand our jobs to be. I do not know what, as the Deputy asserts, there may be in terms of the risks that have arisen because of the way we have dealt with this, but we have made decisions. We felt we had to make decisions. In terms of the decision regarding Ryan Tubridy being on air, that was not a board decision, nor should it ever be a board decision. The idea that a board would have some say-so in who is on the air in RTÉ would quite frankly-----