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

Mr. Terence O'Rourke:

If the Deputy looks, the director general has a very good interview in The Currency magazine today. He talked about when people are leaving an organisation, the employment legislation in this country is very strong and gives lots of protection to employees. There are two ways – you can have very extensive and costly litigation or you can do agreements with people that probably end up in the Workplace Relations Commission. Those agreements typically are legally required to be confidential and all the rest. That is a process that we need to do when people exit the organisation. We will comply with the law. The policy of RTÉ is to make sure that we have as open and transparent a process as possible. However, we have to deal with the law, and the requires the Workplace Relations Commission to-----