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They ask anybody out there and they just don't feel they're worth it.

I think for a standard presenter, no more than €150,000.

I mean, they're getting paid.

Even Kevin Backhurst agrees that they're getting well and truly overpaid, even though with the old contracts.

I just think what's there at the moment, they're getting hundreds of millions of the taxpayers' money and the public don't like it.

It's just not going down.

It doesn't make a difference what RTE thinks at the end of the day.

The bottom line is what the public think.

And right now, the licensed payers are very, very, very unhappy.

Yeah, so I suppose it's continued as it started.

I mean, the mood of the committee has been sceptical and it's been openly frustrated.

There's a sense among TDs that

I mean, they're back dealing with another RTE Transberry controversy just when confidence in the broadcaster was beginning to recover, you know.

So, I mean, there's been multiple references of Groundhog Day.

They've repeatedly questioned whether RTE has really learned lessons from the Soberies Candle.

But I suppose, I mean, the tone throughout, and especially in the past half an hour, you know, it's still been less explosive than some of the hearings, you know, maybe in 2023.

But there's a clear irritation at the drip-feed nature of these kind of revelations around, you know, that present their classifications.

Yeah, so, I mean, I suppose it's been mixed reviews to Backhurst.

He's made some fair points.

I mean, Brian Brennan has to be the right person for the job.