Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Alan Esslemont:

Again the research that was done by NUIG and Red C showed that Irish speakers use TG4 and Raidió na Gaeltachta at the top for their news, so they differ a lot from English speakers in Ireland. Journalists, people who work within our media but are employed by RTÉ at present, feel that they are being penalised for being bilingual. I think that is long-standing. It is good that RTÉ is looking at that, just now.