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

I am paraphrasing but Mr. Curran has said the cuts the senior presenters have taken are big cuts. However, the only reason they are big cuts is because they were on huge money in the first place. If they were on €100,000 then a 30% cut would be a large cut. Although 30% of €400,000, €500,000, €600,000 or €700,000 is, in percentage terms, a big cut, it still leaves them on ridiculous salaries. It cannot be justified in a country with this population. The idea that they are geniuses that cannot be replaced does not hold. That is simply not the case. Why does RTE have them on short-term contracts when they have been there for decades? We are sick of looking at them at this stage. Can RTE change them?