Ms Paula Mullooly:

I can take that question, if it helps. What has been provided is the top 100 salaries on an anonymised basis, following issues we had with certain individuals who were unhappy with publication. As I have said, we sought external advice. One of the questions we asked was about weighing the public interest in transparency against individual rights. The view taken in that regard was that, because RTÉ had provided a list of the salaries without names, there was no public interest in disclosing the individual names. The advice also considered the broader legislative framework in the context of freedom of information legislation. It also considered the issue of consent because we had previously been asked in a meeting of this committee whether we could ask the top earning 100 staff members. As I have previously stated, the advice was that such consent would not be sufficient.