Marie Sherlock

And we turn to the RT Director General, Kevin Backhurst, who has insisted that the broadcaster has paid a price for transparency because the fallout from the latest top paid presenter controversy intensifies.

Executives will appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Media today to answer more questions, including those about the family of Sean Rocks, the arena presenter who died last year.

We'll find out about that in a moment.

Fionaan Sheehan is here, Ireland editor with the Irish Independent.

Hello, Fionaan.

When he said that they've paid a price for transparency.

And did we hear much about the detail of that meeting that happened last night between Kevin Backhurst and Minister Patrick O'Donovan?

Terence O'Rourke was there as well and Adrian Lynch from RTE.

I have Marie Sherlock on the line with us, Labour TD.

Hello, Marie.

You can hear me there.

Hello, Clare.

You're welcome to the programme.

I know you have been dealing directly with Sean's family, so you might just explain to us what's at issue here.

And a great, I have to say, a great former colleague of my own and I knew Sean and he did great work there.

And it was such a sad passing because he has a young family and it's that family that you're dealing with now.

Exactly.

So, Fiona, just to come back to what we're expecting today then at the media committee, do we know who's going to be there from RTE?

Is it all going to be about the top 10 list or what issues are at stake?

And we should say it's not the top 10 earners, it's the top 10 presenters.