Mr. Zac Sloper:

From the point of view of SIPTU and the workers I represent, when this and everything else post was revealed the anger was palpable and we were very disappointed. Two or three years previously, we had been asked to take a pay cut during the pandemic. When other contractors were being paid huge amounts of money we were asked to take a pay cut. I stress that this has been going on for as long as I have been working at RTÉ, which is almost three decades. Every few years there is a crisis. Every few years we are looking for money. Every few years RTÉ comes along with the poor mouth saying it has no money and it cannot do this or that. We have had enough at this stage, and we really just want it sorted.