Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

It is a point well made and is something we cannot just solve here and we will be coming back to it. The 9 p.m. news programme is news driven. On the question of criteria for the coverage of the Dáil, overall we have to strike balance in the programme and a view of political balance across a longer period, say over a week or two. It is primarily news driven and we choose the clips on the basis of the significance of the person who made the statement, the strength of the clips involved and how fairly represented are the major stakeholders in any particular story, whether that is political parties or others.

Deirdre McCarthy would feed into that process. There is very careful consideration put into it. There is quite often a discussion about which clip is used in the headlines of the "Six One News" and the "Nine O'clock News".