Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one final brief housekeeping question. I raised with the Tánaiste in the Dáil Chamber yesterday the publication of the report on the Future of the Media Commission. It is difficult for all of us, not least the witnesses, when we are working in a vacuum without having that information. As my colleague, Senator Cassells very eloquently and robustly put it, it is a pity we have not got it. We are certainly doing our best, as Government party members, to try to force its publication and then we can have a conversation on how we will fund media into the future. It is not only the war in Ukraine but Covid-19 also re-emphasised the importance of good research journalism and of presenting facts and it has refocused the public’s mind on where we are at with that and the importance of it.

On the transition from the BAI to the new media commission, and I am sure these are exciting times for the BAI, will Ms Craig advise me as to the size of her organisation, the number of people working in it, how she envisages it transitioning to the new media commission and what it should look like in practical terms?