Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, that response from RTÉ is absolute rubbish. RTÉ knows well there are discriminatory practices between English language workers and Irish language workers. It gave a commitment some months back to address it and revert to us. We had to chase it up and when we eventually got a response, it was a complete and utter fob-off. There is a responsibility on RTÉ, given that it is funded by taxpayers through the TV licence, to not operate practices that discriminate between English language and Irish language workers. I found RTÉ's response highly offensive and thought it was pure ignorance, to be honest. If we can put anything right through this legislation, it would be by forcing RTÉ to stop this unequal carry-on and the discrimination. It is completely wrong and RTÉ is fully aware of it.