Ms Sinéad Burke:

A Chathaoirleach agus a chomhaltaí, for accessibility purposes I will give a very brief visual description of myself. I am a white, visibly disabled cisgender woman who uses the pronouns "she" and "her". I have long brown hair and I am sitting in front of green flower wallpaper in Navan.

On the diversity and inclusion question that the Senator posed, in the work of the commission we were really intentional about ensuring that the learnings we undertook within this space lived within the mandate of "nothing about us without us". Through our thematic dialogues, we have engaged with stakeholders representing organisations and individuals with lived experience to compare to international best practice in thinking about the increasing representation of diverse people, in front of the camera but also behind it, with regards to our media entity. As already stated, we have not yet come to our final conclusions within this but it is intrinsic to the work of the commission in terms of who we learn from and how we consider diversity and inclusion. The Senator made specific reference to the digital landscape. We have seen from international best practice is that digital has been a space where diverse voices have been most welcome. We have also learned from our discussions, including our thematic dialogue, that these communities have a desire to ensure the digital landscape is not the only one in which diversity is represented. We are currently trying to create recommendations which understand the desire, importance and relevance for diverse voices to exist within our media landscape as they do in our society.