The RTÉ Executive Board is a committee

Committee

A committee is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole"...

 composed of the senior management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

 of the Irish

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

 public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...

, responsible for the day-to-day running of the broadcaster.

Composition

The Executive Board is chaired by the Director-General of RTÉ

Director-General of RTÉ

The Director-General of Raidió Teilifís Éireann is chief executive and editor in chief of RTÉ. The current Director-General is Noel Curran, and is the most senior person in the Public Service Broadcaster, Noel Curran replaced Cathal Goan in the role in February 2011.The RTÉ Board appoints the...

. The board is made up of the Managing Directors of Television

RTÉ Television

RTÉ Television is a department of Ireland's state broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann.The first channel to broadcast was Telefís Éireann which began broadcasting on 31 December 1961...

, Radio

RTÉ Radio

RTÉ Radio is a department of Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. RTÉ Radio broadcasts four analogue channels and five digital channels....

 , News, the Chief Financial Officer

Chief financial officer

The chief financial officer or Chief financial and operating officer is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. This officer is also responsible for financial planning and record-keeping, as well as financial reporting to higher management...

 and the Director of Communications. The Director-General is appointed by the Authority while the other board members are appointed by the Director-General. Currently members of the board are:

• Noel Curran
  Noel Curran
  Noel Curran is a radio and television producer and current Director-General of RTÉ. He joined Raidió Teilifís Éireann as a reporter in 1992 after a period working as a business journalist for Business & Finance magazine. He later produced both Kenny Live and The Late Late Show...
  
  , Director General.
• Glen Killane, MD Television.
• Conor Hayes, CFO.
• Claire Duignan, MD Radio.
• Ed Mulhall, MD News.
• Brian Dalton,MD Corporate Development.
• Bride Rosney, Communications.

Role

The group is responsible for the management of the corporation on a day-to-day basis. Despite its name, the board was not a board of directors

Board of directors

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...

, but rather is a management team. As RTÉ was not legally a company as defined by the Companies' Acts, it did not have a board of directors as such. However that role is filled by the RTÉ Authority, who were the statutory body charged with running RTÉ under the Broadcasting Authority Acts 1960-2002. The Authority was however a part-time non-executive body, while the members of the Board work full time for RTÉ and are full-time executives of the corporation.This will change following the enactment of the Broadcasting Act 2009 and RTÉ will become a semi-state company under the Companies Acts.

The Executive Board reports to the RTÉ Board

RTÉ Board

The RTÉ Board is a seven-member body which makes policy and guiding corporate direction for RTÉ, Ireland's state public broadcaster.Current members of the shortly to be dissolved Authority will now form the interim RTÉ Board until the new appointments procedure is activated by the Minister...

 through the Director General.

As RTÉ is a state owned corporation

State-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland

A State-Sponsored Body is the name given in Ireland to a state-owned enterprise , that is to say, a commercial business which is benficially owned, either completely or majority, by the Irish Government...

, the Executive thus has responsibility to those householders with a television that pay the tv licence

Television licensing in the Republic of Ireland

In the Republic of Ireland, a television licence is required for any address at which there is a television set. In 2008, the annual licence fee is €160. Revenue is collected by An Post, the Irish postal service. The bulk of the fee is used to fund Raidió Teilifís Éireann , the state broadcaster...

. It should be pointed out however, that legal responsibility for the service rests with the Board of Radio Telifís Éireann and not the Executive.