Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

She expects more. I do as well, by the way. I appreciate that, and also that she is slightly hampered in terms of what she can say.

I will move to Ms O'Keeffe. If the former director general, Dee Forbes, was here, one of the questions I would ask her would be whether she feels like she was thrown under a bus. That term has come up quite a lot. Does she feel like she was thrown under a bus by the RTÉ statement last week and by the remainder of the executive board? I say that because of the content of the statement. I would like to ask Ms O'Keeffe the same question. Does she feel like she was thrown under a bus? Does she feel she had to come here today to clear her name in some way, shape or form? What I mean by that is that the statement from last week goes straight into it. It states that on 19 December, following a meeting between the director general, the agent and the then RTÉ CFO, which was Ms O'Keeffe, a financial proposal was set out to the agent which stated an offset of the exit payment due in his previous contract, a 15% cut in fees from RTÉ in reference to facilitating a possible additional commercial agreement. The way this was presented appeared to me that there was straight away an effort by the existing members of the executive to distance themselves and very handily put the blame at the feet of the former director general who is no longer on the executive board, and the former CFO, Ms O'Keeffe, who is no longer on the executive board. Does Ms O'Keeffe feel that she had to come here to clear her name? Does she feel that essentially she was thrown under the bus?