Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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We are going back down a rabbit hole again now. I have been here many times before and, as Ms Cusack well knows, that is only part of the story. There are legacy issues going much further back than 2018 that I am concerned about and that the workers who have been disenfranchised and disadvantaged are concerned about. These are the issues the chairman has an obligation to fully examine and make right. Is he fully briefed on the overall picture? There has been a spin coming from the HR department of RTÉ consistently since we started raising this here about Eversheds and how, effectively, the universe began at that particular point. Let us stop the smokescreen. We all know there is a lengthy legacy problem going back to the 1980s in relation to workers being misclassified and disadvantaged. Will the chair lead the way in getting that resolved for those workers?