Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay, but that really is not good enough. Until my time for asking questions was up, Ms Licken was more or less saying the Department had no knowledge of it but what about the staff in the broadcasting section and in corporate governance? It all comes back to the point I am making about oversight. I cannot believe Ms Licken said that the Department had no knowledge of it when broadcasting and governance staff in the Department did so. Were questions asked? The misclassification of workers and bogus employment were splattered all over the media. At what stage did the oversight or the questions start? RTÉ misclassified workers for years. It exploited workers for decades. Having listened this morning, it seems that what happens when RTÉ is found out is that it lets the Department know, it tells the Department it will fix it and that is the extent of the Department's oversight. That is just not good enough. This is public money we are talking about.