Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Jon Williams:

Bills. On any one day, the RTÉ news and current affairs section is trying to balance a variety of stories, be they terrorist attacks in Kenya, the fallout of a Brexit vote, the inquest into the Carrickmines fire or the trolley crisis. There is a limited amount of airtime and our editors make editorial judgments.

I would be concerned if, across the full range of output, we were not reflecting that. What the Deputy referenced was before my time, so I will take his points back and investigate them, but I would find it difficult to believe that "Oireachtas Report", for example, did not cover Bills that had been introduced. One of the reasons for us transitioning our Oireachtas coverage away from broadcasting in the middle of the night to real-time digital-first reporting is to allow us to carry out more reporting about what is happening in the Chambers, both the Dáil and the Seanad.

We are committed to reporting what happens in the Oireachtas and what legislators are doing. That is why we have as many people based here as we do. That reporting of what the Deputy and his colleagues do is a major investment.

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