Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

We are doing practical things. A new provision is set out in section 116(9)(b) that there will be a requirement on the report that goes to the Minister from RTE that the name or corporate identity of persons commissioned to make independent television broadcasting programmes will be made available. That is a new provision, so that is change we are putting in place. The latest report is due to go to Government before the end of this month and then to be made more widely available.

While we have a hybrid model, we still have public service obligations and public service money going into RTE and that gives us the authority to say to any such station that it will not be a station with ratings as the measure of success and that it will have to give prime time slots that might otherwise be very lucrative-----

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