Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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I have a couple of places I still want to go and time is against me.

Mr. Bakhurst identified that 51% of the organisation's costs are related to "people costs", as he termed it, that is, salary and wages. We know there have been findings made against RTÉ regarding freelancers and what is essentially bogus self-employment. We know there is still some work under way in that regard. I am assuming this is part of the work the expert advisory group is looking at. Have we any sense of all of future liabilities, either to Revenue or the Department of Social Protection, that may be outstanding for RTÉ? I understand there is an element of crystal ball-gazing in this but as we are modelling our future funding forecasts, and Mr. Fives has spoken about when we expect the money might run out unless other things come into play, do we know what is coming down the tracks here? Have we any sort of modelling and is that factored in?