Mr. Mike Fives:

It is important to add that many of the people who receive allowances are the lower paid members of staff at RTÉ. The focus has been on car allowances and so on, but, for example, people working in moving, staging and so on are those who receive allowances for shifts, etc. The allowances are across the piece. As Ms Cusack said, they are very over-complicated. We need to look at how we can simplify that.