Ms Emma O'Kelly:

It is a difficult issue. I have had cases of women coming to me and saying they are only being paid X amount and they just discovered their colleague, who is male and less experienced than them, has been brought in at much higher up on the scale. We on the shop floor try to pursue those cases. Those workers are, at the same time, perhaps on a temporary contract and not secure. They have an eye to their future and do not want to rock the boat too much. If you talk about people stepping up to present programmes, people want those opportunities. We do our best but it is a struggle and it is hard. It is a complicated picture. It is not as simple as saying we will all ballot because there are many different factors feeding into the individual circumstances of people. It is tough. On the gender pay issue, we have been railing against this for years and we got nowhere.

On the top pay, in 2019, we met as a branch and agreed there should be a cap placed on top earnings in RTÉ. That got very little traction outside of RTÉ. We have been trying to fight this and have been railing against it. We did not get very far, and our hope was that everything that happened over the summer would be a catalyst for real change, and so far we have not seen that.