RTÉ employee paid more than €10k for external work

RTÉ said of the 133 workers who embarked on external activities in the first three months of the year, 50%, or at least 66 of them, received no payment or other benefit for their services. Picture: Denis Minihane

More than 130 RTÉ employees were involved in approved external activities in the first quarter of 2024, the broadcaster has said, with one of those workers paid more than €10,000 for their services.

The station has published a ‘statistical summary’ of the external activities undertaken by its employees during the months of February and March. This is in lieu of producing a register with the names and individual payments involved in each job.