Ms Eimear Cusack:

I started with RTÉ in April 2017. A number of months into my employment, the trade union group raised some concerns with me about contractors. At the time, we were beginning the investigation into gender and role equality, which resulted in the Mulvey report. The trade union group and others were given a commitment that when the investigation was complete, their concerns would be addressed by means of a full review of all of those who were providing contracts for services into RTÉ. It was intended that there would be two parts to the review. The first part involved a review of the situation to ascertain whether everyone providing services was properly categorised as a contractor or should be categorised as "other". It was intended that in the event of improper categorisation, it would be dealt with upfront.