Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If we go back through the decades the cost will multiply. What annoys me is that money is set aside for Revenue, because legally RTÉ will have to pay it. It is taxpayers' money. Not a cent has been set aside for the workers who have been misclassified, going back decades, who have lost out on entitlements. There was no shortage of money for exit packages paid to some people who were not even entitled to them, yet there is no money set aside for workers who are entitled to it, yet this is the new RTÉ. When one thinks about it, it is hard to credit how unjust that is. We are expected to accept that this is a new RTÉ and that is still the thinking: that it can screw the workers, take them to court, fight them all the way, pay taxpayers' money, go into the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, bring Arthur Cox – it does not matter how much that costs - RTÉ will fight the workers all the way when they are the ones that have been hard done by. I am just going to leave that there as the new RTÉ thinking.

I have two other very brief questions. We spoke before about GAAGO and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, investigating the fact that initially, permission was given to put games outside of Ireland behind a paywall. Now it seems that RTÉ is operating the paywall within the island of Ireland. That is despite the fact that the approval given by the CCPC, states five times that it is for outside of Ireland. The previous time I raised this, Mr. Bakhurst stated that he had received legal advice saying that further clearance was not required. Was that in-house legal advice or legal advice from outside of RTÉ? Could we please be furnished with the legal advice because when I spoke to the CCPC last I was told there is no decision and it is still actually working on it?

We would be interested to see the legal advice that RTÉ was furnished with, whether it was in-house or independent outside advice, where it was stated that clearance was not required for RTÉ to operate a paywall inside the island of Ireland.