Marie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I sincerely thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee today. I am conscious it has been a gruelling time for them all. It has obviously been a gruelling time for everybody in RTÉ, in particular those who are modestly paid and on insecure contracts. I am conscious this whole experience is taking a toll on everybody, but we are here because we all want a stronger and better RTÉ at the end of this process.

My first question is for Mr. Lynch about that letter of guarantee in 2020 to Mr. Tubridy. Mr. Lynch has knowledge of that letter, and then seven months later there were pay cuts being proposed to the staff by the RTÉ executive. Did he not think then that he should have raised that issue, that there was a guarantee of no reduction for a five-year period to Mr. Tubridy, and yet staff were being asked to take pay cuts in the order of between 3% and 6%?