Ms Eimear Cusack:

It is really important. When I started the programme to address those issues, it became and has become one of the most complex pieces of work myself and my team have ever undertaken. I did not realise at the time the extent of the issues. I have shared extensively with Mr. Bakhurst since he arrived. Morally, I feel very strongly about the people in RTÉ. I feel strongly that we need to get the organisation to a place where it is a level playing pitch. This is not an answer people want to hear but I have to say the truth. One of the issues is that when we were trying to address this, we did it through a collective agreement to which the majority of people signed up. I cannot sit here and say to you - hand on heart - that I will go back and look at all of this again because that would be unfair to the people who signed up. We said that was what was agreed between the facilitators and ourselves. I understand exactly what the Cathaoirleach is saying. I fully accept - because I have heard it myself - that people are unhappy. I am slightly at a loss because we took on a big rock. We have tried to create something. We tried to compensate people in a way that was done with facilitators, through a collective agreement. These things cannot be unravelled.