Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank everyone. It is a very interesting and important piece of the jigsaw puzzle in terms of what is missing in our media landscape. I am furiously writing notes as I always end up doing at these things and thinking of more questions. I remember that RTÉ poll and being so horrified about it and thinking that if they had asked about my community whether they would be okay if there was an LGBT person, there would have been, I hope, uproar. I was really surprised that in 2022 RTÉ felt emboldened enough to do that, and that is a real shame and possibly reflective, as was mentioned, of RTÉ leaving Travellers out of the equality and inclusion strategy. It seems to be a very big thing to have left them out considering Travellers are listed under the Equal Status Act. Does the Irish Traveller Movement have any insight as to whether there was ever any decent explanation given or if there was any dialogue between it and RTÉ as to how this happened? I cannot imagine and it would be a glaring omission to have done it accidentally. I do not want to put words into their mouths but it seems extraordinary if RTÉ is basing it on the Equal Status Act to have just taken one of them out and just removed a sector from the strategy. Was there any dialogue that happened or even after it?