Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will list the questions. It will only take a short time. If the unions cannot come back to me now, it would be very helpful if they could provide answers to the committee on some or all of these questions.

Workers were not at all involved in the Eversheds review. How did RTÉ, SIPTU and other unions select workers for the Eversheds review? The Eversheds review established a bogus self-employment rate of over 40%. Why were union members not informed? On what legal authority are unions excluding hundreds of workers from redress for being bogus self-employed by RTÉ which is a criminal offence on the Statute Book? I can give a copy of these questions in writing. This might not be a question for the unions but why is the full Eversheds legal advice on the extent of bogus self-employment in RTÉ not before the media committee? That is something we, as a committee, need to pursue. What liability did the Eversheds review establish? The Eversheds review was an attempted cover-up of massive bogus self-employment in RTÉ, why did the unions not call this out? Union members who paid full subs for decades were given “yellow pack” contracts by RTÉ with the approval of unions after the Eversheds review. Will unions be refunding members the subs?

Then there is a question of the 396 workers dismissed by RTÉ after the Eversheds review. Keith Walsh was one of those. Based on figures, we have from the Taoiseach himself, 297 of those workers were employees at the time. How will this be resolved? If we do not have time today, I would appreciate those answers afterwards.