Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The NUJ represents the workforce and reporters who strive to get things right. Balance that against the people who own these media organs. When I started as an intern 30 years ago at the Meath Chronicle when I was in college, there was a full-time copy-reader - in a provincial newspaper, in a newsroom. Now, you are lucky to get journalists to staff what is required, certainly at provincial level and now at national level as well. Is there not an onus on the owners of these media organs, which are commercial entities, to make sure they provide the proper resources so that we do not find Mr. McConnell, Mr. O'Connell or Mr. Purcell in those positions?