Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

Taking "The Late Late Show" as an example, there is a small production team. What I said was that we are going to move the programme off the land but we have not decided how we are going to do this yet. Basically, there are two options. One of them is to put the programmes out to the independent sector, while the other is to do a hybrid model by working with the independent sector and some of our staff as well. Those are the options we need to explore.

Where people go, therefore, will depend on the outcome of the model we choose. Many operations people involved work across both programmes. I think there will be opportunities for them, potentially, to work in other areas. We will still be producing a significant amount of other coverage from RTÉ, as Mr. Lynch touched on, in respect of radio, television and sport. There will be opportunities for staff to retrain within RTÉ.

There may be opportunities for people to choose to take an exit package, leave and work for one of the independents. I touched on the previous voluntary exit schemes. A high number of people from operations applied to the last exit scheme who we were unable to let go because the organisation was not changing. There was a significant appetite last time around – I think it was in 2021 – for people to go.