Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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It is true that RTÉ did not have what the BBC had with the Nigel Lawson judgment. To be honest, the representation of people from the environmental community has changed recently. However, for many years, the dominant framing narrative in RTÉ was always sceptic versus advocate to the point that really respected and decent people in the scientific, climate and environment community boycotted RTÉ because we were only ever included to be pitched against the sceptic, which was fodder for a good story but unenlightening.

That was the reality and I would love to go back over the archive. From personal experience, I was always up against a sceptic.