Ms Teresa Hannick:

Would we do anything different? The processes are difficult in these kind of situations. There have been all kinds of difficult situations all over the place over the years and not just in RTÉ. It is a process that is gone through and it is a way of resolving. It has been taken as approach from as far back as 2001 to force this change in RTÉ to recognise the staff. It was not until after a very severe financial crisis in 2011 and 2012 that this process came to the fore on how to resolve it. Bogus self-employment is everywhere; it is not just RTÉ. Bogus self-employment is rife in the construction industry. We fight it all the time trying to resolve it. We came up with a process where we try to get the best solution and the most options for as many people as we can.