Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Colm O'Callaghan:

RTÉ is unique in respect of its funding. It is co-funded through commercial incomes and the licence fee. The conflict between those is as long and colourful as the history of the organisation itself. I work in the area of factual content and we are very clear about the distance between our commercial activities and our obligations, particularly regarding the public-facing content we do. We have very robust internal codes in and around the advertising that we take. I am almost certain that RTÉ does not take advertising for and does not advertise products that are in any way illegal, for instance. There is a lot of conversation on an ongoing basis about-----

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