Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is great. That is important to get on the table.

The difficult with that is that many of Mr. Tubridy's colleagues would have taken reductions and they would perceive this additional arrangement facilitated or arranged by RTÉ to be not in the spirit of what was happening at the time. I suppose Mr. Tubridy wanted at some point to go back into RTÉ, go into the canteen and be able to look the person serving him a cup of coffee in the eye, to talk down the microphone with a sound engineer at the other end of it and to look through the lens of a camera. He has to be able to look those people in the eye.