Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion
11:00 am
Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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Unfortunately, as I was at another meeting, I missed the start of this one. I may repeat some of the questions judging by the conversation. I note at the outset that there has been a significant increase in the content produced by RTÉ on nature, diversity and climate. That is very welcome. The standard of these programmes is incredible. What I find is that there are two faces of RTÉ, namely, the face of "Rising Tides" and such programmes and then the face of advertising. I understand that a considerable portion of the organisation’s revenue comes from advertising and it will be a challenge to address that.
I have a couple of questions. Our witnesses have done the numbers of RTÉ productions using the calculator by year. Is there a similar calculation being done of the number of ads for fossil fuel products?