Ms Eimear Cusack:

Of the other 300, there are 102 who are now employees of RTÉ, 79 of whom came in as employees as part of Eversheds. Of the 197 people still providing services, there are 55 of those who are limited companies and they would mainly be on-air presenting staff. We are in discussion with Scope around them. There are some other on-air presenters who are sole traders, whom we are looking at with Scope as to their classification. Then the issue for us is how we are going to engage them if they become employees because premium rates are very different. The remainder are contributors, particularly in sports. For example, somebody may have a contract for services from RTÉ that covers a 12-month period for sports punditry. They may be called upon four times the year. We do not know when because it depends on when the events take place but because nobody can come into RTÉ, as a contractor, without a contract in place then the earnings will be very low. For all other categories, since 2019 people are being employed using employment contracts.