Fionnan Sheahan

And basically, Sean Rock's family and his widow have said, Sean Rock was a producer, presenter.

He was down as a producer, but then he became presenter as well.

He was getting an allowance for it.

I presume the issue was that wasn't a permanent pensionable allowance.

And therefore, that had an impact upon pension entitlements after he so sadly passed away a year ago.

It's actually supposed to be about the reform programme and pensions, but one would imagine, for obvious reasons, that the Oireachtas Committee will pursue the executives on related issues that are now emerging.

And there's a number of other issues.

Issues seems to be knocking around the political grapevine that they want clarity on about the structure of the top 10 earners list and how exactly it's put together.

Because, in other words, are there other Derek Mooney's out there is basically the question that is being asked.

And very interestingly, Clare, you point that out, because what RT did last week was throw out a very shiny object of, oh, here's the top 10 earners from our annual report that will be published later on in the summer.

There's no sign of the 10 executives who might...

most of whom are the actual top 10 earners we've only found out in recent years.

So for many years, RTE management were quite happy to parade out the stars, the talent, the on-air presenters as, oh, look how much they're being paid, when in fact the management were on vastly more.

So it's rather curious.

Again, they've done that tactic last week.

Oh, here's the top 10 stars.

Look at how much they're being paid.

And yet no sign of the executive.

So maybe the Oireachtas Committee might get some clarity on that when they propose to publish that list.

There's interesting stuff in the opening presentation about the decline in the licence fee revenue.