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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I apologise for being so late. I listened to the committee proceedings from the start and I thank all our guests. My colleague Deputy Hourigan has been in, so I am not going to go over old ground. I thank the guests for coming in. Overall, they have been quite generous to the Department of Education, because any parent or student listening to this debate would be horrified by how much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Even if you were to bring a parent, for most people, the cost is prohibitive for one person to go, let alone two people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Absolutely. Certainly not mine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Makes a big difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: That has been an issue in the background anyway. For almost every family, the affordability of books has been an issue. There is an extra dimension to that for the visually impaired.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (15 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Having that continuity where everybody is saying the same thing is very helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. To reiterate, we were disappointed with the response from RTÉ when it came before us two years ago. This is why we have decided to bring the witnesses back today. We had a list we could have chosen from but we specifically wanted RTÉ to come in and answer questions on advertising. Given Mr. Deans's and Mr. Mullen's responses to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: It was repeated a number of times. I wanted to point that out. Mr. Mullen mentioned that RTÉ is in conversation with Coimisiún na Meán at the moment. I have not heard anything today to suggest RTÉ believes there should be more stringent regulations on itself regarding advertising fossil fuel products. Is RTÉ in discussions with Coimisiún na Meán about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Will RTÉ be looking for further, more stringent regulations around fossil fuel advertising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Or will it be the reverse, that RTÉ wants the regulations to stay the same in order that the fossil fuel industry can continue to advertise as it does?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Absolutely, as Mr. Mullen stated and I recognise, RTÉ has obligations under companies legislation. It is a partly commercial entity. My experience from any engagement is that people will try to put their best foot forward to ensure they get the maximum amount of revenue possible. What I am trying to get clarity on is whether RTÉ will do that when it comes to fossil fuel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Mr. Mullen is not saying that RTÉ will look for tighter regulations around fossil fuel advertising. He does not know one way or the other.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: It is interesting when Mr. Mullen speaks about the reducing revenue RTÉ is getting from fossil fuel intensive industries. Notwithstanding that electric vehicles are lighter on the environment, when they become heavier, that creates other problems. My concern is that I am not receiving a straight answer and given RTÉ's revenues are reducing - it is almost a starvation scenario...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Does RTÉ want to come back in to the committee before it does so, or while it is doing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Mullen. I will go back to a point Dr. Nordrum made in his opening statement, which is that the IPCC 2023 synthesis report stayed up on the RTÉ website for four hours. We have not had a response from RTÉ regarding the decision-making that goes into how long climate stories remain up. You can tick a box and say here are the things that have been done and that this came...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am trying to figure out, because I am not a media expert, if there is an algorithm. Does the number of people who read really determine it? Should something else be put in there to say that something is a priority, that we know the health impacts of it and that, therefore, we will add this information to our algorithm to keep it in the news? It is a chicken-and-egg situation. If people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Is an individual making the decision or is it an algorithm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: The Role of Media in Climate Action: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: With respect, we are still not getting a massive amount of clarity as to what the balance is regarding how much time something spends on the public broadcaster's various platforms. It is an editor's decision, but where is the public interest in how the editor makes the decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank all of the witnesses for all of the good work of their organisations. It is timely that they are here. We know that there will be an election before the end of February. I am not going to give my prediction for when exactly that will be but I raise that point because now is the time when all the political parties are putting together their manifestos. We had a fairly robust...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Progress on Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (8 Oct 2024)

Pauline O'Reilly: Yes, we will alternate until the Cathaoirleach comes back to us.