Ms Dee Forbes:

As I said last week, I refute the notion that we engaged in bogus employment practices. RTÉ has had many different relationships with employees and contractors over the years. A confluence of factors, including changing laws, definitely caused a problem. We are now in this process to really look at the legacy issues involved. What I said last week was that we are very committed to working to find the right solution to this issue. It is very complex. We have the scope section of the Department of Social Protection and Revenue involved. We have committed to our trade union group that we will collectively come to an agreement and work through the industrial relations process we have in place at RTÉ. We have a good track record in getting things done through that process, but we are not in a position at this point to say exactly what will be involved in that. We need a little more time to work through the complexities of this to come to the ideal solution.