Mr. Alan Esslemont:

We have just finished a survey on what Irish speakers expect from news. The public sphere in Ireland needs good journalism to exist. For the population that speaks the Irish language, a minority language needs its own public sphere which intersects with the national public sphere but is not totally subsumed by it so that we do not end up with just translations. We will be able to share the survey with the committee, probably in early summer when it comes out. It is very interesting that there is a demand for more journalism in the Irish language, more regional journalism, and more distribution of journalism through media that young people use. There is a lot for both us and RTÉ to look into as far as Irish language journalists are concerned.