Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Rory Coveney:

On the issue of the pay disparities, there has been some commentary on this and on the grading structures at Raidió na Gaeltachta versus RTÉ. RTÉ has given a commitment in the context of a broader organisational review around grading, which we are doing, to look around this issue again. It was the subject of an internal industrial relations tribunal, IRT, ruling a number of years ago and adjustments were made. Again, the issue is that RTÉ has 160-odd grades within its business. We gave a commitment very recently to our staff - actually in the last week - to engage a full review of our grading structures, which will encompass any of the issues that relate to Irish language disparities.

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