Trust in RTÉ cannot be restored without change within the national broadcaster, according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
Speaking in Co Clare, Mr Varadkar said: "I understand that the new Director General Kevin Bakhurst is going to announce changes to the organisation on Monday, the way the management is structured and issues around conflicts of interest."
Mr Bakhurst, who is due to take up his new role on Monday, met Minister for Media Catherine Martin on Thursday.
"I am very reassured in what he has said to Government and it's important that he be allowed to set out those plans on Monday and to talk to staff first and to inform the wider nation about those changes and he's going to make them quickly," Mr Varadkar said.
On the TV licence issue, the Taoiseach said he hopes people continue to pay the TV licence but he agreed it is an outdated model and that it needs to change.
He said it currently funds so much valuable broadcasting, be it news or sport, drama, children's TV or the RTÉ archives, and that is the value of it.
However, Mr Varadkar said it does need to be overhauled and described it as a really old fashioned way of collecting revenue based on ownership of a TV device which many do not have anymore and almost all the money goes to RTÉ although there are many others involved in broadcasting outside public service broadcasting.
"So I think reform of the TV licence is long overdue and I want that to happen during this Government," he said.
"I can see the political temptation to put it off for another government or another Dáil, but I do not want to do that, and I want to make sure we have a new system up and running during the lifetime of this Government," he said.
Will RTÉ have done enough to repair shattered trust?
Mr Bakhurst also met RTÉ union representatives yesterday in a meeting that has been described as positive by staff representatives.
Irish Secretary of the National Union of Journalists Séamus Dooley said Mr Bakhurst made a commitment to communicate with staff, to engage fully and travel and meet people outside of Dublin.
Mr Bakhurst is one of eleven 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.
Delay establishing facts 'corroding confidence'
Former Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte has said it is taking to long to extract the full facts from the RTÉ controversy, warning that it Is "corroding confidence and trust."
Speaking on RTÉ's Saturday with Aine Kerr, he also highlighted what he thinks is "the biggest question" that is outstanding around the payments to Mr Tubridy
"Why someone at the top of RTÉ made the imprudent decision to underwrite a guarantee from a sponsoring company and then when that company defaulted RTÉ decided to discharge the guarantee rather than pleading force majeure.
"And then to cap it all, decided to conceal the transaction and the beneficiary of the transaction for whatever reason... that is the fundamental question," he said.
He said he does not have a problem with a dual funding model if it was properly regulated and managed.
"It is sloppy management that has got us into the situation we are in," Mr Rabbitte said.
He said while it has been argued to close down the commercial operation of RTÉ, that is saying to the license payer "you have to come up with another €146 million" to fund public service broadcasting.
"In the present political climate I don't think that is realistic," he added.
Sinn Féin's Mairéad Farrell said what has been heard amid this controversy is how difficult it has been for RTÉ workers in the way they have been treated.
She also stated the public is extremely angry and they have a right to be regarding taxpayers' money being spent in certain ways.
"We have to be very clear that there cannot be a situation where license fee money is spent on that kind of lavish lifestyles for certain individuals when at the same time we have heard from RTÉ workers how poorly they have been treated."
Aontú leader TD Peadar Tóibín said the issue of accountability is key and there is a system within RTÉ where there was an absolute breakdown in governance.
He said he does not believe any of the positions on the RTÉ Executive or RTÉ Board are tenable.
Mr Tóibín also accused Minister for Media Catherine Martin of "sitting on the sidelines" in relation to a lot of the controversy instead of making sure there is accountability.
Mr Rabbitte said the culture review in RTÉ is very important as it is driving some of the anger" justifiably" among the workforce.
He said it will take some time to change the culture of assurances and guarantees being given to the highest paid.
