Dr. Rosemary Day:

The issue of citizen journalists is not a new phenomenon. Kate Adie famously said in her heyday that if she was looking for brain surgery, she would rather go to a brain surgeon rather than someone she met at a bus stop.

I agree with that as well. However, the citizens' parliament discussed, and was very taken by the experts who came in to talk about, community media and local media on a micro-scale. There were resolutions that called for community media to be financed through Government but for the funding to be disbursed by local county councils and local authorities, which would know the media in the locality. That would be a way of making some kind of compromise, where there would be some regulation and some adherence to the basic standards that would be expected. I do not know whether that answers the Deputy's question.

With regard to the opinion poll, I am not aware of any place that has been able to impose a ban on opinion polls, certainly not on digital media. Ms McInerney talked about the difficulty of feeding the beast of digital newsfeeds. Opinion polls are a very handy way of doing that, so I do not see them disappearing soon, but it is a stated problem the citizens' parliament identified, which it would like somebody to do something about.

The Deputy's last question was to do with change.