Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Appropriation Account 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Peter Finnegan:

The television service must be looked at in the context of our overall communications strategy, of which it is one of a number of elements. It is interesting as some of the recent poll findings indicate that the level of trust in the institution has gone up by quite a considerable amount. It has increased by four or five percentage points in the past few years. I am not saying it is attributable entirely to what we are doing-----