A meeting between RTÉ union representatives and incoming Director General Kevin Bakhurst has been described as positive by staff representatives.
Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists Seamus Dooley said Mr Bakhurst made a commitment to communicate with staff, to engage fully and travel and meet people outside of Dublin.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne, Mr Dooley said: "It was a positive engagement in that he acknowledged, as indeed did the human resources director, the genuine regret at the pain that has been inflicted on staff.
"But more positively, a firm commitment to work with staff and unions to restore the faith and confidence of staff in RTÉ."
SIPTU representative Teresa Hannick said at first they did not know whether to "congratulate or commiserate" with Mr Bakhurst, who is due to officially begin in his role on Monday.
She said it is important to be positive for the ordinary workers "who, at this moment in time, are keeping this organisation going".
Vice-Chair of SIPTU Lisa Garvey said staff are angry and "want confirmation that we can rebuild this place, keep our jobs, and continue to work in a place that most of us are happy to work in".
She said the revelations in recent weeks have been "disheartening" and a huge amount of work needs to be done to repair the organisation.
Chair of NUJ Dublin Broadcast Branch Emma O Kelly also attended the meeting.
Mr Bakhurst is one of 11 current and former RTÉ Board members and Executives who have been requested to attend the Public Accounts Committee next Thursday.
Four of those requested to attend have not participated in the previous committee meetings, including Mr Bakhurst.
The others are former Director General Noel Curran, Director of Content Jim Jennings and Head of Sport Declan McBennett.
Mr Jennings could not attend previous meetings due to illness. Mr Curran said he would have attended the last PAC meeting but was not able to due to work commitments.
In a four-page invitation, PAC Chair Brian Stanley said his members wished to discuss "the appropriation of public monies to RTÉ and the expenditure, by RTÉ, of such monies".
It adds PAC wants to examine "commercial arrangements entered into by RTÉ and its presenters, including those underwritten by RTÉ, which have impacted on and relate to the expenditure of public monies."
The letter adds that it may also want to discuss "matters that may arise" from the committee's meeting with presenter Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly, which takes place two days earlier.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that Mr Tubridy and Mr Kelly will have solicitors present in Tuesday's Media Committee hearings in observational capacity. The lawyers will not make contributions.
Broadcast body 'deeply concerned' by controversy
The broadcast and online media regulator has said it wants to look in detail to "verify" whether or not RTÉ met its commitments to deliver public service broadcasting.
Coimisiún na Meán Executive Chairperson Jeremy Godfrey said it remains "deeply concerned" over payments and governance controversy at RTÉ.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Godfrey said Coimisiún na Meán has a specific statutory role and RTÉ publishes a statement of performance commitments annually.
"In particular one of the commitments is to put the audience at the heart of decision-making, another of the commitments is to protect and strengthen public service broadcasting and as part of that to be open, and transparent and accountable and to be efficient and effective and I think revelations place doubt over all those issues," he said.
Mr Godfrey said the commission reviews RTÉ's delivery on these commitments and then makes recommendations to the Minister for Media.
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He added that if this has fallen short, it will have to consider whether it is appropriate to recommend a change in the licence fee until trust is restored in RTÉ.
Mr Godfrey said there cannot be a thriving public service broadcasting unless there is trusted public service broadcaster.
He said he welcomed comments from Mr Bakhurst, who said his main priority will be on restoring trust.
Mr Godfrey also said there is clearly some overlap between what his agency is looking at in terms of a regulatory framework and what the external reviews into RTÉ will examine.
He said there will be engagement to avoid duplication, but added that there was no timeframe on it as yet.
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Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley said he thinks GAA correspondent Marty Morrissey has been pulled into the RTÉ controversy "unfairly and unnecessarily",
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Dooley said questions put to RTÉ representatives at the Oireachtas Committee on Media earlier this week about a car loan was not the question he had specifically asked.
He said the questions he posed was whether there were people in RTÉ who had a car allowance who did not have a car or driver's licence, and also if there were people in the organisation who were getting a car allowance out of the television licence fee.
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Mr Dooley said: "The reality is none of that applied to Marty Morrissey, but for some reason RTÉ management decided to create this notion about an individual who had a car loan etc, etc., creating a level of hype."
He said Mr Morrissey's situation is entirely different to the situation involving payments to Mr Tubridy and there are still answers to get from key people who must come before the committee.
"Let's not get caught on the margins here around personalities, whilst it might make good headlines in the tabloids, it still doesn't get to the root of what actually happened within the management structure at RTÉ," said Mr Dooley.
Additional reporting PA
