Ms Anne O'Leary:

To be fair, we cannot analyse something we have not been given. We are used to the five or six specific paragraphs for a project before approval is sought. Even in the invitation to come to see the combo meeting, it was "We want to take you through a project that we have been working on for two years and that we are about to announce publicly, and it is really important for RTÉ's creativity and commerce". Where is the impression that they were looking for any kind of approval or permission or anything else? They were presenting a fait accompliand there is nothing else I could have done about that.