Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As some of my colleagues already mentioned, we have understandably received a very large number of emails from current employees of RTÉ - mainly based in Donnybrook - expressing some very serious concerns about the strategy and its potential impact on them as employees and individuals. Phrases like "asset stripping" and "ripping the cultural heart out of RTÉ" have been used. Change is always difficult. There is no question about that. What assurances can RTÉ give the cameraman on the set of "Fair City" who has two children in college that he or she will continue in that role for the foreseeable future? I know RTÉ is saying that it wants all the redundancies to be voluntary. How realistic is that ambition and what kind of analysis has RTÉ done in-house to be able to determine that this is a successful strategy in terms of reducing the numbers?