Ms Eimear Cusack:

-----made by Eversheds. The people who were not included in the review at that time were on-air presenters, people who had limited companies and the vast number of people who came in to work in RTÉ as contributors. Those included, for example, as the director general said, people who came in to do sports punditry, etc. They were excluded.

When we offered employment contracts to 82 people and 79 accepted. It was done as a kind of collective approach with the trade union group, TUG. We had a set of governing principles which determined how we were going to handle the employment contracts. At the end of that, we agreed that when this was concluded at some point in the future, both parties would sit down to consider the matters outstanding, including retrospection. That was in 2022. Covid-19 got in the way a little, but we agreed with the TUG to bring in independent facilitators to help us navigate a collective agreement to address this matter. The TUG appointed an independent expert on its side and we brought somebody in. They facilitated the collective agreement between us that was the best deal available. We presented it to our employees who were impacted and they had the option to accept the agreement or not.