Policy analysis

Where there are policy initiatives from the government or from the media or the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NCWI) tracks them and contributes to the debate, normally through the submission of written documentation or oral submissions. They did this for the BAI call for submissions on fairness and objectivity in the codes, and they tried to be involved when RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann, the Irish publicly financed broadcaster) was before the Dail committee on the occasion of a complaint on the PrimeTime programme Mission To Prey. On that occasion NWCI raised questions on gender issues.