Ms Emma O'Kelly:

Yes. While most of the NUJ membership is in news and current affairs, we also have members who are researchers, producers and work in presentation and in communications, so we are stretched across the organisation. We are being told that we in news and current affairs will be okay, but we do not feel so safe. RTÉ is a big thing, and the news and current affairs aspect is anchored by much of what goes on around it. There is an awful lot of creative cross-pollination, so even within news and current affairs, we are not looking out over the edge and thinking we are all right in our boat - far from it, in fact. We do not understand the rationale behind this cutting. We do not see what this is going to fix. Even after all the scandals of the summer, we are being driven further into the arms of commercial interests and we do not understand why that is happening. The only thing we can think of is that a crisis is being used to drive through a pre-existing agenda. Obviously, we are opposed to that.