Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. Does Mr. Bakhurst accept that RTÉ has lost the confidence of the public to the tune of €21 million in licence fee renewals by year end? Does he accept RTÉ is on the verge of bankruptcy, could very easily go bust, and is in a perilous financial situation? Yet, when he responded on the matter of the 10% pay increase, he said that to be fair to the executive board, it had taken a pay cut. That does not show new broom leadership. RTÉ is on the verge of bankruptcy. It has lost the total confidence of the public to the tune of €21 million in funding through licence fees, yet nothing will be done about executives on scandalous salaries helping themselves to a 10% increase, with RTÉ crying poverty all the while. Mr. Bakhurst mentioned a freeze on recruitment and all that sort of thing but there is that kind of lavish expenditure, where people are paid salaries beyond most people's imagination, yet nothing is to be done about it.