Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In my view, a plot was hatched to conceal these secret payments from the public, from the Oireachtas and from the workers of RTÉ, to launder that payment through Renault, and to mislabel that payment as a consultancy when it was clearly not a consultancy. It was a payment to an individual, which a group of people or individuals wished to conceal from the public. The public was always going to pay because, as we were told yesterday, Renault insisted it be cost neutral. In other words, the public had to pay for it. We need to know who hatched that plot and why.

The other thing that came screaming out to me was the idea of what was called "the talent." There is a group called "the talent" who are on staggering salaries, multiples of what ordinary workers got, who are treated differently from the vast majority of workers, journalists, crew and so on, who are apparently not talent but who, in actuality, make RTÉ function and provide the journalism and broadcasting on which we depend and are treated shockingly.

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