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
Mr. Peter Feeney:
It could be. The reason it is not open-ended is that the decision was taken in 2007 that there would be a three-month deadline. I was not in the Press Council or the Press Ombudsman then. My understanding, however, is that given the importance of journalists remembering the details, have their notes, etc., three months seemed like a reasonable amount of time. As I said, we did a survey of 25 other press councils and we found that three months was, more or less, the average. There is no reason the period could not be six months. The impact-----
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