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It was made at the top of the organisation with full knowledge.

So I suppose that's worse than someone at the lower levels playing games.

I suppose it's, you know, according to a couple of the TDs involved in the committee, it suggests a culture at board level at the time where the rules about transparency were bendable somewhat.

Yeah, I mean, it's supposed to wrap up at half two here.

And I think, you know, ministers would be happy to ask questions of Packhurst and Lynch as long as they possibly could.

But yeah, it's due to finish up in a few minutes.

I suppose it'll be interesting to see how long this goes on.

I think, you know, as your colleagues have been pointing out, I mean, there is very much mixed opinion on RTE at the moment.

And it felt like they were just restoring public confidence.

But

At the same time, I mean, you know, Groundhog Day was mentioned as well.

It feels like we've heard all this before.

And, you know, there's kind of an element of, you know, people are somewhat getting sick of this story.

So I think people are starting to tune out a little bit.

But, yeah, it's yet to be seen kind of, you know, if there's more fallout from this.

Oh, I haven't been listening to today's proceedings at all, but I agree with one of the earlier speakers.

I don't know what the big deal is here.

I mean, people mustn't remember very well the days when Pat Kenny was paid close to a million and Ray Darcy was heading towards half a million.

So I don't think the current salaries are too bad to... There's a lot of years of experience needed to present any kind of a programme and a lot of background knowledge here.

So I don't think, and I think the current management are just trying to fix things as well.