Peter Cleere (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, RTÉ's coverage of news and current affairs is excellent and it does sports really well. Would it not make sense for RTÉ to look at the possibility of a dedicated sports channel similar to the news channel? We are in an environment now where there are loads of extra space for games, repeat matches, weekly highlights. What I want is for RTÉ to commit more coverage to sport, but in particular women in sports.

I am a father of four children and a former manager of the Kilkenny and Carlow camogie teams. At best there might be four or five camogie matches in a year. There was probably more time spent talking about shorts and skorts in the coverage than there was on the actual game itself. Is that something RTÉ could look at? It would be really welcomed. RTÉ does it really well and there is definitely a market there and more people might pay the licence fee if there was that dedicated channel.