Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion
Mr. S?amus Dooley:
I do not have that. One of the issues which you have to realise is that, as trade unions, when we were dealing with the Eversheds Sutherland process, we were dealing with it with our hands behind our backs, because we did not have a list of people who were on bogus self-employment contracts. We have no access to that information. The only time that we as unions knew who was on that list was if people came to us individually. Many people on those lists may not be union members at all. Some of them would have contact with us. I will stand over how we represent people who approached us but some of them would not have approached us. RTÉ felt that it was unable, under the Data Protection Act, to give us lists. Equally, we do not know who was covered by the Eversheds Sutherland process. In other words, we do not have the list because Eversheds Sutherland did an independent legal review. It produced the names. RTÉ has the contracts.
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