Mr. Zac Sloper:

I thank the Senator for the opportunity to comment. Going into the summer, we are extremely busy in television and radio. There are many things going on, including the European Championships and the Olympics. There is a culture of not fixing the wall until it falls down, if that makes sense. If we think there is going to be a staffing problem in five, six, ten or 12 weeks, we wait until just before it appears to fix it. In my area of operations, staff are doing a lot of overtime to try to get the jobs done. It is not like working in a factory where there may be 15 people doing the same job and where 14 can pick up the slack if one goes sick. In RTÉ, one person is doing one job and if he or she goes sick, there will be a black output. The person has to be replaced. There is a problem with staffing levels, certainly in television and radio, from what we have heard. We are battling on through and getting the work done but there is a need for more staff.