Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Semi-State Pensions: Discussion

10:10 am

Ms Mairéad de Buitléir:

People do not realise that. As I said in my presentation, there is a myth in that regard, particularly in terms of RTÉ because people read headlines in the newspapers about the huge salaries and benefits. However, 80% or 90% of the ordinary workforce going into that organisation every day, be they technical, clerical or whatever staff - I worked in the programme area - are on very moderate salaries. We are not on gold-plated pensions. They are anything but that. It is true that one fifth of our pensioners are on pensions as low as €12,000.

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