Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We know that there is a liability there and this is going to have to be settled. It is not going to go away. It is there and it is going to grow. It is only going to go one way. In the future, regarding the funding of RTÉ, I would imagine this is surely going to have to be taken into consideration.

The Minister is conscious of the Department of Social Protection liabilities but is she fully conscious of the fact that workers there have not been dealt with and have not been paid? The State has been paid but the workers, again, are waiting. This is all happening in the context of people who have walked away from the organisation very recently, with massive amounts in settlements, yet these workers are being treated in a completely different way.