Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Committee on Public Petitions
Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Mr. Feeney for that comprehensive response. I know the Chair will tell me when I am out of time. I will come back in latter with further questions. Delving into the average of 400 complaints the Press Council receives per year, some of which, as Mr. Feeney says, are misdirected, does he have a percentage for the number of people who think they are contacting his office correctly but whom he has to redirect? I note he has only two and a half whole-time staff working in his office, which is quite a load for those staff. Can he give us a sense of how many complaints are misdirected?
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