Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Four hours waiting and I get three minutes.

There is a lot at stake. To me, public service broadcasting is critical. I do not want to see a world where Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and for-profit companies are the only ones who provide us with news or broadcasting, but what has happened here has put the credibility of public service broadcasting seriously at risk. Therefore, we have to protect public service broadcasting. People are furious. The public can go to jail if they do not pay for their TV licences. As Mr. Lynch and others have said, the vast majority of the workforce are paid fractions of what is paid to the top presenters and were forced to accept very tough sacrifices, pay cuts, pay freezes and bogus self-employment. I have heard some shocking stories about people not having remote controls in the TV room and people using ironing boards at home as desks when working from home, because the money was not available for desks, and then we have this. It is pretty shocking stuff.

If I understand what the delegation has said correctly, when it was decided that everybody was to take a 15% cut and all the cuts were imposed, only one person, represented by Mr. Noel Kelly, said he was not taking a 15% cut. Am I right? I am trying to understand how the exception we are hearing about even came into play when everybody else was told they had to take a 15% cut and apparently did. Do I understand that correctly?