Oireachtas broadcast staff's 'extremely concerning working conditions' highlighted with commission

PI Communications said that the Oireachtas broadcast contract constitutes a 'pay per public minute' model. File Picture: PA

A group of at least 125 TDs and senators has called on the Oireachtas to directly employ the workers who broadcast Dáil proceedings amid claims of poor working terms and conditions.

The group includes Labour leader Ivana Bacik and minister of state Jerry Buttimer. It has written to the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to highlight the “extremely concerning working conditions” allegedly being endured by the 30 professionals in question.