Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Fair enough. Has RTE offered any of these wonderful people who present radio and televisions shows €100,000 per year? Has it asked if they would work for that amount and, if not, that it would look for somebody else? Where would they go? Who would take them on board? I cannot see anybody taking them on board and if somebody did, so be it.

With regard to how RTE employs these people through companies, is that its way of getting them at a cheaper rate as it does not have to pay them pensions and so on? Is it a case that the tax system, while it is outside the control of RTE, actually facilitates RTE in getting them? Is that how RTE views it?