Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has said the board of RTÉ is to provide him with a detailed account of the steps it will take to address the serious shortcomings exposed by the recent BAI investigation.
It was agreed that the board would provide him with a report on all the steps it is taking to address this issues surrounding the Prime Time Investigates documentary "A Mission to Prey" within a week.
A quarterly monitoring report on the issues raised would also be submitted.
Earlier, Mr Rabbitte said there should be no changes on the board of RTÉ.
Mr Rabbitte said: "I am satisfied the board fully appreciates the seriousness of the situation."
The minister said that during a two-hour meeting, the board offered no excuses for what had happened and accepted it caused damage not only to Fr Kevin Reynolds but also to the reputation of RTÉ.
Mr Rabbitte said that the RTÉ Board is determined to make sure that the issues involved in the case will never happen again.
The BAI found that the programme broadcast serious, damaging and untrue allegations about Fr Reynolds.
The BAI report, published last Friday, found there had been a significant failure of editorial and managerial controls within RTÉ and imposed a fine of €200,000.
''A Mission to Prey'', which was broadcast in May 2011, resulted in the defamation of Fr Reynolds.
Mr Rabbitte subsequently asked the BAI to investigate whether the programme had breached sections of the Broadcasting Act 2009 relating to fairness and privacy.
Speaking on RTÉ on Friday, Minister Rabbitte said the report had been more serious than he had expected and there was a fundamental challenge to RTÉ to re-establish its reputation and to rebuild trust.
He said his confidence in the RTÉ Board had been shaken.
New investigation
The chairman of the RTÉ Board Tom Savage today said another internal investigation is to be carried out in the wake of the Prime Time Investigates programme.
He said the board has set up an Editorial and Output Committee, which will look at how the programme made it to air and examine the issue of ''groupthink'' in parts of the organisation.
Mr Savage said final details of the form the investigation will take have not yet been shaped.
He said the focus will be on having detailed discussions with senior programme makers, and people in executive producer and editorial roles in news and current affairs.
In a statement this evening, the RTÉ Board said it welcomed today's meeting with Mr Rabbitte.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications has said that "calling for a head" at RTÉ is "inappropriate" at this stage.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Andrew Doyle said it is important that the board is given the chance to explain its case.
