Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

One of the key frustrations for me is this. It was not that there was a lack of corporate governance structures but that the structures that were there did not work. This is particularly true of the reporting between the executive board and the board. While I do not want to draw this analogy, I used to serve on my school board. You would think a school board would be much more of a Mickey Mouse affair in comparison to RTÉ and the size of the cash flows. However, on a school board level, the principal has to make a child protection oversight report every single time the board of management comes together. More often than not - and what one hopes for - is that the board members will say there is nothing to report. There is, however, a formalised process where, every single month, the question is asked whether there is anything happening in terms of the child protection oversight report.

I want to focus on the remuneration committee. It met patchily at best.

It was poorly attended and the minuting was not up the job. Mr. Bakhurst stated the oversight of new contracts is being taken up by the remuneration committee. How many people are being put on that committee? How often is it meeting? What are its obligations to report to the executive board or to the board proper, which is the real oversight on behalf of the taxpayer? Have those issues been rectified and proper functioning set in stone?