Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the delegates and thank them for the presentations. I wish to make a couple of points and hope not to take up too much time.

I understand from what the delegation said earlier that RTE gets phone calls from political parties that basically say "We want time, we need this and we need that". Does that happen constantly? Does the Government do the same? Is there an onus on RTE to accede to these requests? Where does an ordinary Joe Soap come in, be it an Independent politician or one person on his or her own, who never rings RTE?