Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I sincerely hope he does. It is in the interest of RTÉ as much as anyone else's not to frustrate the workings of the committee and not to force us down the legal route of compelling the documents.

The other issue I wanted to mention was in the other question that was disallowed. This is about the issue of bogus self-employment in RTÉ and the fact that €1.2 billion has already been paid to Revenue for workers that were bogusly classed as self-employed. It was the first time ever that RTÉ put on public record that it has set aside up to €20 million out of the remaining €68 million because they know that Revenue is going to be coming after them. At a minimum the figure is €19 million. It goes back decades, where workers within RTÉ, the public service broadcaster, were bogusly classed as self-employed and denied pension rights, holiday leave, holiday pay, sick leave, all of the entitlements that other workers are entitled to.

We were listening to that and then we had heard about exit packages that were given to those at the top. Some of these people were not even entitled to those packages. The ones at the top walked off into the sun with their exit packages, some of whom who were not entitled to them, and the workers were left in limbo, having been denied their entitlements.

The worst thing of all is that RTÉ had set aside the sum for Revenue but not one cent for workers. I would like the Minister's opinion on that.

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