Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No, I am asking a question. I will be honest, I have very good time for you but I am asking a simple question. Do you think it should be a part-time person who is getting €31,000 a year for doing a job? Someone is being paid over €200,000 - the director general - and the lady is being paid €31,000. I will be dead straight, and I will not use the word that I could use about being paid €31,000 to get all the flack. To me, she was the scapegoat. She was the lady who was thrown under the bus. The person who should be taking responsibility is the director general. Have you any plans to change the organisation around? Maybe I am wrong in saying it but you should not be going to a part-time worker and asking a part-time worker. I have had my own business for nearly 20 years. I would not ask someone coming in part time. It would be the person who is running the ship, doing all the business and everything else. There is something seriously wrong that the No. 1 person in RTÉ is part-time and being paid what I will not say is peanuts but they are being paid €31,000. There is something seriously wrong here at the moment.