Leinster House channel had more than nine million minutes of online viewing on Tuesday, compared to the usual 29,000 minutes for a committee hearing
The total number of minutes watched on Oireachtas TV last Tuesday was 9.1 million - a 300-fold increase on normal. It is the equivalent of 150,000 hours, 6,250 days or 17 years of total viewing.
“It speaks for itself in terms of public engagement,” Oireachtas TV broadcast and channel manager Donnacha McKeon said on Saturday.watched proceedings on the RTÉ News Now channelsMr McKeon said there were big numbers too when US president Joe Biden visited Leinster House but not on the same scale as the Tubridy/Kelly hearings.
“The vast majority of the population don’t interact with us but, when they do, we have to be ready. That’s what happened over the last week. I was proud of the team that we were able to show really comprehensive coverage.”
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