Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Bill reads, "The sound broadcasting services established and maintained by RTÉ are deemed to be one sound broadcasting service for the purposes of subsection (5)", and subsection (5) is the requirement for 20% of the broadcasting time of the service. The Minister is saying that 20% of the broadcasting time of the service can be on one channel, which can leave other channels without any news content. There is no requirement for them to have any news content. They can at their discretion but that is before the committee here. If the organisation cannot even maintain the geographic integrity of the island, how are we going to ensure it is going to maintain news content across all its radio broadcast channels if we put in a provision like this?