Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

I thank the Senator for his insights on public service broadcasting over recent weeks and months. They have been extremely useful. He has characterised the position entirely accurately, and as an executive or leadership team, with the board, we are having to deal with various reports and situations of the past. Mr. Lynch has been doing a lot of that alongside me. There is an awful lot of time taken up, and rightly so, co-operating with the Government inquiries. It is going to be potentially six months until they conclude, and we need to be properly open with them and give them all the information they need. There is a lot of effort going into that.

There is a considerable amount of effort dealing with the current financial crisis. Then there is the really important prize, which is our vision as a public service media provider in Ireland, and how we best deliver that to all audiences.

It will be based on fantastic content for this country, an open, transparent and trusted way of operating and how we put public service values at the heart of that. The value of trusted, impartial and accurate news at the heart of any country is there for everyone to see. We see it around Europe from public service broadcasters. Alongside that are live sport, entertainment and events that bring the country together. We need to deliver that in a modern, efficient and transparent way. All I can do with the team is to carry on trying to rebuild the organisation and set out a vision in October, which I welcome the chance to come back and describe here in more detail when we have it.