Shane Ross

She beat him to the job.

And he came in afterwards and inherited all the bad things.

You see, what he is, I think, to a large extent now, he's not a prisoner, but he doesn't have too many options at this stage.

The situation was so bad that they're doing some quite radical things.

And they called in...

Niamh Brennan, who's a consultant, accountant, to look at the very basic things you're talking about from start to finish.

Yeah, and a very, very fine one with absolutely no axe to grind on this.

And she made 90 recommendations to RTE.

And they are...

mostly about corporate governance, which is the basic problem.

She didn't name in any sense anybody really of being culpable, but she said the following things have to be done.

And what Cam Bacchus is doing, as far as I can see, not fast enough, because RT never moves fast enough, is implementing them as far as he can.

And the government immediately put his hand up and said, we'll implement them.

RT immediately put his hands up and said they will implement them in full force.

I agree with a lot of that.

I mean, I think you're absolutely right.

And I think the problem that RTE faces, which is

Partly a funding problem, which is the basis for a lot of the things, the scandals that arose, has been fudged.

And Kevin Backhurst is going to have, in 2028, a real problem again, accounting for whether he's actually implemented those things, those things which Brennan recommended or not.

And he got $725 million.