Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

25 Years of Independent Broadcasting: Independent Broadcasters of Ireland

2:00 pm

Mr. John Purcell:

We would be open to looking at such issues. However, it points out an anomaly. Earlier there was a question about why we should get support from public money. That highlights the type of role we could play, but it would be out of the question. A huge number of organisations are obliged to advertise in newspapers and people never ask about that. The newspaper industry is non-regulated. The newspapers can publish whatever they wish and are not governed by a regulator. We would be very open to it, but there are certain ironies and contradictions inherent in it.

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