Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome all our witnesses today. I will begin by posing a question to the Minister. I presume she has seen all the previous hearings we had with the RTÉ board and that she has been following them all. I know they were 20 hours of our lives that we will never get back. However, the Minister saw the questioning, the responses and glaring failures in corporate governance that were exposed here by numerous members of the committee through their questioning. The public saw that as well, and that explains an awful lot the fall-off of the television licence fee renewal figures. Does the Minister understand that there needs to be consequences for the board before the State and the taxpayer ploughs more money into RTÉ?