Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I forgot to ask a question to the Women on Air group. I am one of those who benefitted from the really good training and work that Women on Air has done in the past. I remember from research the women's council did many years ago that it is not just around getting access but it is also around the question of what women are asked to do when they are given space in media and broadcasting. I remember research, which is possibly outdated now, from a number of years ago which found that women were very often asked to talk about their experiences while men were asked to explain what was happening. There was that kind of qualitative difference in terms of how women were being asked to react, to talk about their experiences and to say how they felt about something while in the areas of analysis and explanatory work a disproportionate number of men were seen. Will the witness expand a little bit further around that qualitative dimension of the importance of having not just greater representation but greater representation in different ways in media?