Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Long Wave Radio Transmission: RTE

11:30 am

Mr. Jim Jennings:

It is. We are engaging with them on a daily basis, because they are calling us and emailing us. We have been in discussion with people in the UK, with the Irish Post, and with various other journalists in the UK. Mr. Coakley is leading a delegation to the UK next week. He has arranged a number of meetings with the various organisations to discuss what we might do and whether there are better solutions than we have at the moment. We are doing all we can in terms of engaging with community groups in the UK. We have a good relationship with some of them, so we hope to be able to identify where the pockets are and what we could do for those people, in an effort to maintain the service for them. I know, because I have worked in RTE for a long time, that RTE is often accused of not listening to people. We are listening to people on this one. We accept that the window was too short and we will engage with people on this issue.

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