Ms Aideen Howard:

I am a relatively new appointment so I actually have never had any experience of Ms Doherty's time at all. I was appointed on 29 November on the same day as the new chair. We started at the same time, so my experience of the board is as you see it now. However, I would say that over the last months there has been a very noticeable change in the quality and content of the information and the kind of interrogation that we are undertaking. That has been very evident in the recent weeks, since Mr. Bakhurst's appointment. I think it is very clear to us that the principles of corporate governance which we are tasked with upholding are going to require a huge amount of new energy and a huge amount of trust building so that we can happily say that we are both accountable and responsible for the fairness and transparency of the organisation. That is our role as a board. The point of all of that is to safeguard the work that Mr. Shortt has been talking about, which is actually to allow the work of the amazing teams and talent in RTÉ to be seen on air and for the public to have that benefit. I think that is something that this board is taking immensely seriously and would be proud to do it.