Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

RTE: Governance Issues

9:30 am

Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

If I may add one thing to Deputy Michael Moynihan's point, there were discussions after a few weeks between me, Fianna Fáil and various other representations. These are typical of the representations we had along the way. They are very useful and sometimes highlight things we have not been aware of. I will then go and question those involved and ask why the decisions were made. In that way I make programme teams aware of these issues. This is not peculiar to Fianna Fáil but is a feature of the ongoing discussion I will have. Often they will raise legitimate concerns to which we will respond. As Mr. Nally says, current affairs are probably the most punctilious in terms of the records they keep of appearances. When I get them they are coloured graphs showing political parties and even which parts of the country the guests come from. We can interrogate that ourselves when the parties come up, as they inevitably do, with complaints from time to time.

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