Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

From a moral perspective, Ms Forbes cannot actually say the workers should be paid what they were deprived of. My fear is that, in two, three or four years, when RTÉ will have made what could be multimillion euro settlements with the Department of Social Protection and the Revenue Commissioners or taxpayer as a result of its failings, it will not pay the workers what they are entitled to after having engaged with them. I do not have any confidence given that Ms Forbes cannot even say from a moral perspective that the workers should be paid. My fear is that, in ten years, the Committee of Public Accounts will be asking about large legal settlements and the then director general will tell the members not to worry because the settlements relate only to legacy issues, which is what we were told last week.