Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I hope the conversations will take place because otherwise we will have a dead product. We will enter the space of American TV where commercially-owned channels can dictate editorial policy. I do not want to live in a world where I will have to watch the Irish version of Fox News to get my information. We either value journalists or we do not. We must wake up to the reality of what it takes to fund a national broadcaster and defend it.