Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

I spent the summer before I started the job having some conversations with some politicians who were kind enough to meet about my vision – the chair came with me – for RTÉ. Part of that clearly rested on public funding. I have no intention of restarting those discussions or trying to do so. Clearly, it is not all in my hands but I would not attempt to start those until we can show real progress and demonstrate real change in the organisation, which I hope to do rapidly.