RTÉ did not query employment status of any workers prior to 2018 review

RTÉ commissioned a review of all contractors in 2018 to ascertain if they were classified correctly.

RTÉ had never lodged a single query with the Department of Social Protection regarding the employment status of its workers prior to 2018, when it first commissioned an external review.

The broadcaster, which is currently facing a review of 700 of its employees as to whether or not they had been bogus self-employed, with a potential liability of up to €20m, said that the fact it had not lodged queries with the employment status section of the department prior to that date does not mean that it believed all of its workers were correctly classified up until that point.