Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate the Taoiseach on his election to the office he holds. I wish him well for the future. This is my first opportunity to do so. You know you are getting old when the Taoiseach is younger than you.

I will raise a serious matter. As the Taoiseach may be aware, bogus self-employment has been a serious problem affecting workers at RTÉ for a long time. In some cases, it has dragged on for decades for people. Meanwhile, people find themselves in stressful scenarios, such as RTÉ dragging them through lengthy proceedings to have these matters addressed and still some people are not satisfied with their circumstances. The Oireachtas committee on media will meet next week. Individual workers, according to advice from the Office of Parliamentary Legal Advisers, OPLA, will not be allowed to give individual testimonies about their experiences. They will be protesting outside the gate. Will the Taoiseach consider meeting some of these workers to give them a hearing because they feel that they have not been heard? Will he oversee a whole-of-government response to this issue? A number of Departments are involved and the matter has been dragging on for too long without being resolved.

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