New RTE Director General Kevin Bakhurst has revealed his salary.
Speaking to the media in Dublin, he said: "My salary is €250,000, I get a car allowance, I think it is €25,000. That is my overall package. It is less than I was earning at Ofcom."
Asked about RTE broadcasters taking part in commercial arrangements, Mr Bakhurst explained that there needs to be "a degree of transparency". He said: "I think the new register of interest that we are drawing up as a matter of urgency will deal with some of these issues.
"Some people will be allowed to do things but they will have to operate within the guidelines with the right information to do it and the right transparency around it. We are not going to prohibit people from doing everything but there has to be, for our licence fee payers and for everyone else, a degree of transparency."
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The new director general said the Irish national broadcaster will be looking at its future relationship with agents.
Mr Bakhurst also said that a decision would have to be taken soon on the future of presenter Ryan Tubridy with RTE. He said: "This is only day one. I have tried to set out as comprehensively as I could the plans today, but, as I have made clear, it is the action which counts and that is what I will be judged on."
Asked about the future of Tubridy within the broadcaster and the role of agents, he said: "As far as Ryan goes, we'll have to see how the week goes and what comes out of this week and we'll have to take a decision on that soon, for everyone's sake and for Ryan's sake.
"On the question of the agent, I don't want to single out an individual agent. I don't think it's personally healthy that any single agent has such power in any particular country.
"We will be looking at our future relationships with agents and how we deal with them."
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