Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair. I welcome the staff representatives and thank them for coming. The one thing that needs to be made clear, as a punter and public representative, is that I have full trust in the staff and in the quality of the product of the public service broadcaster. It is important all of us on the committee say that and that it goes back to the staff. We have full trust in the quality of the public service broadcaster. We need to support it, especially, as Ms O'Kelly said, with elections coming up. We need to resource and make sure that trusted information is out there and that the public get it. It is important to put that on the record.

I have a couple of questions. My colleague, Deputy Griffin, asked a number of pertinent questions with regard to the Eversheds review. Time constraints meant people did not get an opportunity to reply. I might give some of my time to allow the representatives to reply to Deputy Griffin on the Eversheds review.

The RTÉ strategic vision document is the future. The witnesses outlined some of the points in it that need to be put in place with regard to the future of RTÉ. It reviewed allowances, grades, structures, etc. What are their views on the discussions? What level of discussion took place between them and RTÉ management? What sort of engagement was there with unions and staff over recent months with regard to the expert committee advisory review? I will leave it open to-----