Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Well there have been historic cases. If you look at the history of RTÉ and others, you can see that there were cases of improper and undue political interference. It is not rocket science to say that. I believe we can overcome that by putting in place secure mechanisms so that such political interference would not be successful but that is complicated and there are various other options. We will make that, but as a Government we stand up for an independent media that gives strength to our democracy, which RTÉ and other media organisations do at the moment, and we will fund them into the future to make sure they continue to do that.

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