Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Peter Woods:
My problem with that is I am not sure what exactly the Chair is talking about without specific information about the programmes concerned. I do not know about resistance. Our starting point is not to build resistance to anything but to have a discussion. The Chair is suggesting that the discussion is creating resistance to climate action. Without knowing the specifics, it is difficult to answer that. The Chair is talking about programmes like "Liveline", which is driven by what people telephone in to the programme about. Our starting point in a programme like "Liveline" is not that we want to do this or that, it is that the listeners phone in about different subjects and then "Liveline" presents-----