Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

I will begin, and Ms Ní Raghallaigh might like to come in. There are a number of significant questions there, and I will deal with a couple of the financial ones first. On the question of the photographer and the money, I have asked that question. I want to know more about that, and I want to know exactly what the deal is. I cannot believe that, on the face of it, it is as published. I want to know what all the details of that are. I am dealing with it. When I have the details, I will be happy to come back to the committee and let members know exactly what it is for. I cannot believe it is just for the work as described in one line. I will come back to members on that, if that is all right.

On the wider question, as I have said, I have been there eight weeks, and we have spent a great deal of time trying to address the emergency of the governance arrangements at RTÉ. That has involved a change in the leadership team. There is a whole list of governance changes I can run through that the committee will, I hope, be fully aware of. At the same time, we are facing into this financial crisis. It is fair to call it that. We have been considering exactly which options we have to stop spending cash this year, and to reduce the head count in the short term. In fact, we announced earlier today that to start, there is a freeze on recruitment at RTÉ for the rest of the year until we have more visibility of our finances. We are also going to stop spending cash on anything that we have discretion on at the moment. That is fairly wide-ranging, and it has a significant impact on the current and future organisation. Some of that is about spending on things like outside broadcasts of events.

Some of that is about investment in our digital products, including the RTÉ Player, which we can stop for now. It is not my ambition at all because the digital future of RTÉ is critical. Those are the sorts of tough decisions that we are having to take at the moment. It is fair to say that in the short term, there are limited levers I can pull. I am pulling every lever I can to try to preserve cash because it is my duty and the duty of the board to make sure that we as an organisation do not run out of money. These are tough decisions but we are taking them as a leadership team.

On the site in Montrose, I said in the first week I was here that all options were on the table. All options are on the table as far as the site in Montrose goes, which includes full sale of the site, partial sale of the site or doing nothing. I do not think that doing nothing is an option, so that is not really on the table. What are the options for the full sale of the site and what is the price tag for doing that?