Marie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair and thank everybody who has made the effort to be here today.

We often hear the slogan, on both radio and television, about RTÉ supporting the arts and I suppose the question has to be asked today. Does RTÉ accept that serious harm was done to the reputations and indeed the livelihoods of the people involved in Toy Show The Musicalin terms of how it was managed? We saw the article from Ms Lisa Tierney-Keogh this morning, in which she said that there was no full-time writer in the crew only two months before the production was due to open. It was the equivalent of a bike with a missing wheel. Has RTÉ ever apologised to any of those workers and reached out to any of those people involved in that production? Serious harm has been done because of the mess created by the executive and the board of RTÉ in their mishandling on people's livelihoods. Has anything ever been done to reach out to those individuals who were part of the production?