Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Imelda MunsterImelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

You forgot about me. I wanted to flag this correspondence, particularly because it relates to previous correspondence and engagement with RTÉ, specifically No. R1198B from the Department of Social Protection. It is about bogus self-employment and RTE workers' cases. I do not feel the Department of Social Protection's related correspondence adequately addresses our question as to why it cannot provide interim updates on the outcomes of those cases where a decision has not been reached. That is very clear in its correspondence. I suspect it might relate to the fact that it has been reported that RTÉ is appealing those decisions that have gone against it to the Social Welfare Appeals Office. I would see that as a way of delaying justice for those concerned by up to six months. From our engagements with RTÉ and the reports in the media, I still find it bizarre that RTÉ has committed to back pay of up to only four years and-----

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