How Long Can the Executive Board Stay in Place?

The new Director-General of Ortee, Kevin Backhurst, is in a meeting this morning with the Minister for Media Catherine Martin. He says there are serious questions to be asked about RTE's executive board and how long it can remain in place. But he insists that barter accounts were not being used as intended; instead they were just part of an 'extraordinary expenditure on corporate hospitality' And then you have these very unorthodox payments to Ryan Turbordi, which were never declared publicly,. This meant that RTE was essentially giving misleading information about the star presenter - who is highest paid person in Irish broadcasting.