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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Will Mr. Fives give us a rough amount? Is it €10 million, €20 million or €30 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Has money been set aside for workers as compensation for the entitlements they lost, including PRSI, pensions, holiday pay and sick leave? Has money been set aside for this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: There was an RTÉ staff meeting yesterday. Was it not said at the meeting that correcting the wrong with financial compensation for the workers who were misclassified will not happen? Perhaps Mr. Bakhurst can clarify that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Did you say it would bankrupt RTÉ?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: We are speaking about 500 workers over a long period of time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Does RTÉ intend to compensate those workers who lost out on holiday pay and all of their entitlements due to this misclassification, or bogus self-employment in real terms. Does RTÉ intend to compensate these workers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: It is paying Revenue because it has to pay Revenue. It is looking at €20 million of public money for this payment. I am speaking about the workers specifically.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: RTÉ is appealing some of those cases. It is taking workers to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: RTÉ is spending more taxpayers' money fighting workers for moneys to which they are entitled.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: When RTÉ is arguing these cases at the WRC it brings Arthur Cox in with it. Could we be furnished with the amount it has cost so far to fight these cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: The question still has not been answered. Every committee member has said this morning that public trust and confidence are at zero. I have said previously that RTÉ has a mountain to climb. Any of the responses we have received this morning would certainly not add confidence or trust.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Bakhurst said he would furnish an outline framework of the report in October, with a more detailed and costed statement of strategy by early next year. This has to include everything we have raised today and the responses. Nobody would back interim funding as it stands at present.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: If RTÉ is going to fight workers who have spent years looking for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: -----their basic entitlements, it will go down the chute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: I just want to come back on the point about €20 million being set aside for Revenue. Am I correct in saying that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Who is it for then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: Right. So it will be whatever the Department says RTÉ owes Revenue. RTÉ has already paid €1.2 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: So RTÉ has not set aside anything for workers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): Discussion (12 Oct 2023)
Imelda Munster: I refer to compensation for workers who were denied pension entitlements, holiday pay and sick pay. Is there no pot set aside for that?