Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I apologise. I had to speak in the Dáil and I have suddenly discovered I am not as fit as I thought I was as I tried to run over and back.

An awful lot has been dealt with, or not dealt with. If we get down to the contract, there is huge disappointment out there, and the sense I get is that the only place there is more disappointment than among the public is among those people who are putting in and have put in hard hours, days and years in RTÉ and who feel they have been lied to and treated utterly disrespectfully. I am taking what Mr. Lynch said as an apology across the board. This is a systemic failure.

As regards the contract, am I correct in thinking it was a commercial arrangement that was entered into when negotiations were not going well, when attempts were made to reduce the moneys because everyone else was operating on the basis that they had to take a 15% cut?