Mr. Noel Curran:

The question I took from the Senator was whether they control the programme editorially. There are editorial controls. They are not robotic. They can make adjustments and follow through with supplementary questions. It is not that every question a presenter asks is given to them. They make all of those judgments. They do the research and the part of the planning. They are not the editors of the programme.

In terms of the conductor of the orchestra analogy, that is not the role but they have a key role in terms of the editorial output of programmes.