Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

The Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture is at present meeting representatives from the BAI and RTE regarding the report on the Fr. Reynolds case. I offer my apologies to the Deputy Leader because I will be going to that meeting as soon as I have finished speaking. I call for a debate on the report. On Monday the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly discussed RTE in this Chamber. It would be appropriate for the Seanad to have a similar discussion. RTE faces numerous challenges, not least of which is in the financial area. Question also arise in regard to impartiality in politics -----