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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