Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

We put a range of measures in place. They are all listed in the annexe. The key changes are that, first, we have, as the Senator says, new leadership at the top of the organisation. Second, we have a much more transparent and open relationship between the interim leadership team and the board. I speak to the new chair extremely regularly - several times a week. We discuss everything. There is nothing left to discuss. We have a new company secretary in place who makes sure everything that is discussed at the leadership team is reported to the board. I furnish the board with a written report from the DG for every board meeting, which did not happen before I arrived. It is a comprehensive view of what has been going on and the significant events across the organisation, both the corporate events but also financial and programming, and content highlights as well.

Those are the main changes that have been brought in, but there is a list of about 70 or 80 smaller changes that have been brought in across the organisation to make it more transparent and more robust and to make us more accountable.

The other changes we have brought in relate to staff engagement. As Senator Carrigy will know, there was a criticism before that we did not properly engage with staff. As outlined in my opening statement, there is considerable staff engagement. That includes regular town halls, which the team and I go to and at which we discuss the main events with staff and take questions. Those are normally once a month or once every six weeks. There are regular communications from me via email; I think some members of staff might say too regular. We have surveyed staff to get their feedback on what it is like to work at RTÉ and we will repeat that survey to make sure we are improving. I set up a new staff engagement group, which was open to anybody in the organisation to join. It meets with me approximately once a month. Actually, whenever it wants to meet, it asks to meet and we arrange that. Everything is potentially on the agenda for those meetings. We have new people in place in key roles. We have a new head of commercial. As the Senator can see, Mr. Deans is here. We have just appointed a new CFO, who will arrive in September after serving out her period of notice. Mike Fives has been standing in as the CFO until Mari Hurley arrives.