There is a somewhat muted sense of expectancy around Leinster House today.
On the surface, at least, the atmosphere is far from febrile.
The Chairperson of the Oireachtas Media Committee, Niamh Smyth, even promised a "controlled environment" when RTÉ executives arrive here on Wednesday.
But these soothing words do not alter the reality of what is about to unfold downstairs in the committee rooms this week.
RTÉ has been told in the clearest terms that candour is required when its executives are asked about those undisclosed payments of €345,000 to Ryan Tubridy.
The RTÉ Board has committed to setting out the circumstances "surrounding the misstating of Ryan Tubridy's earnings across the 2020-2022 period," in a statement tomorrow evening.
The statement also added that "RTÉ will also publish as much as possible of the Grant Thornton review, which was commissioned by the Audit and Risk Committee of the RTÉ Board, and received by the Board on Monday last, June 19th 2023".
This will be welcomed by politicians, but any move by RTÉ at the committees to talk about "ongoing processes" and "individuals' rights" when further questions are asked, just won't cut it.
Plus, the many TDs and senators who will ask the questions have the full backing of those at the top of Government.
There too, the appetite for swift answers about RTÉ's finances is great.
The central questions remain: who initiated this arrangement? Who signed off on it? Who else knew about it? And was it all done to conceal additional payments from the public?
Some answers can be found in today's resignation statement from former Director General Dee Forbes.
But those very answers bring with them a swathe of further questions.
Ms Forbes confirms that she led the discussions - around a renewal of Ryan Tubridy's contract - with his agent, but adds "together with other RTÉ senior executives".
The question then is, who were these other senior executives, and are they still part of the RTÉ Executive Board, the group which describes itself as being "responsible for the day-to-day running" of the organisation?
Another line in Dee Forbes' statement appears to spread the net of those in the know even wider when she writes, "following detailed discussions including numerous internal communications over many months with RTÉ colleagues, including finance and legal colleagues, an agreement was reached which delivered cost savings for RTÉ."
This prompts the following question; who were these finance and legal colleagues and did they know anything about the precise arrangement allowing undisclosed payments to be made to Ryan Tubridy?
There is another key eleven words in the statement, when Dee Forbes writes: "I did not at any stage act contrary to any advice."
The question must then be asked, what advice was sought?
But perhaps the most pertinent point comes late in the statement when Dee Forbes points out that she has no knowledge of payments to Ryan Tubridy, which have been questioned by the RTÉ Board, between 2017 and 2019.
Who was aware of these payments and who in RTÉ first agreed to them?
And again, the most fundamental question needs to be asked: was all this done to conceal the payments from the public gaze?
These questions will be put by politicians to RTÉ's senior executives when they make their way to Kildare Street on Wednesday.
The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste want Ms Forbes to attend these committee meetings, but she cannot be compelled to do so.
Whether she attends or not though, it seems certain that anything less than a comprehensive explanation from RTÉ bosses this week will further raise the political heat on the national broadcaster.
