Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A key legal and fiduciary responsibility of any board is negotiating the pay, terms and conditions of the company's highest earners. Only the board is in a position to do this job. Almost every board, but especially a publicly funded one, must have a remuneration committee. That committee most likely must meet several times per year. It must investigate and negotiate the pay levels. It is not as simple as waiting for somebody to bump into you in the corridor. I do not accept that. The company's executives report back to the board. However, how could the chair of RTÉ's pay and remuneration committee, Ms Doherty, fail to attend a single meeting of this key committee between 2018 and 2020? In fact, over a five year period, the chair of the board only attended two committee meetings. How could this have been tolerated by the rest of the board?