Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

RTÉ's Public Service Statement, Irish Language Services and RTÉ Board Appointments Process: Discussion

Ms Dee Forbes:

I am happy to take that. I thank the Deputy for her question. She is right in the sense that we have a number of Irish language obligations. We take them very seriously, as Ms Doherty pointed out. In 2017, we were found to be in breach of some of our obligations and put in place a renewed plan to provide more content in the Irish language for the Comisinéir Teanga. It is a three-year report. It comes to its end in March of this year. We are now preparing the next report, in which we want to address current affairs. At this moment, we provide "7 Lá" for TG4. The other content we provide is more a combination of factual and entertainment content. We are addressing the current affairs aspect of that in our next three-year plan, which is coming in March.

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