Catherine Bailey

And he contacted colleagues and friends and he said, how can I sort this?

It really got him down.

It really, really got him down.

And it took a large toll on him.

And the misclassification is very hard to stomach when, you know, all around him, he was getting huge praise for his work and recognition and work in the arts and you name it.

You know, people, you know, he was a very, very high caliber broadcaster.

And yet on paper, RT had him down as a producer.

But at that stage, he'd missed out on lots and lots of payments.

So the amount of the pension in his pension pot had no reflection at all on the years he had spent in service of RTE.

I mean, Sean is working in RTE since the year 2000, where he started Lyric FM.

And the pension doesn't remotely reflect that.

There's no comparison between what he got in his salary and his pension.

Well, clearly there isn't one rule fits for all because Sean was, you know, he was treated differently.

You can't argue that.

Financially, he was treated very, very differently to other presenters.

For what reason?

He, you know, he couldn't work out why when he was putting in, like he was...

so celebrated as a broadcaster and so hardworking and so committed and loyal to the organisation and so on, he just couldn't fathom why he was left, you know, his wages were left like that and his classification was left incorrect for those many years and that his wage hadn't changed in 16 years.

I mean, that's not right.

And it should have been fixed many, many years ago.