Mr. S?amus Dooley:

I said that, with regard to this process, RTÉ was bound by data protection. There is an elected board member but, no more than this committee, they do not deal with day-to-day HR issues. The issue of bogus self-employment was consistently raised at board level over many years by a number of members of the RTÉ authority, including Patricia King during her tenure on it. This is an issue that goes back over many years. It has come into the focus now and I am glad it has, but this is not a new issue.