Mr. Noel Curran:

The tweet was not included in this report because the BAI had already ruled on it. We had already dealt with the tweet issue, which is why it was not in this report. We did not investigate the tweet issue separately because we had given all the relevant documentation to the BAI and made our submission. It ruled on the issue.

I will ask my two colleagues to contribute on the issue of social media, which is a difficult issue for all of us. There is no point saying it is not difficult. It is new and growing in popularity. As a broadcaster we feel we must be in that space and we cannot become irrelevant. We ask every adult in the country to pay a licence fee and we cannot pick and choose which elements of those licence fee payers we serve.

It is a difficult issue. We are putting in place new guidelines and we are adamant that people cannot tweet opinions and should display impartiality in what they do in social media. We are clear with our people about that. Mr. Bakhurst has experience of this in both the BBC and RTE, and Ms Duignan will also comment.