Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011
12:30 pm
Mr. Ciarán Kissane:
The project will be broadcast on TV3. It is an independent production but when the application was made, the letter of support was from the BBC. One often finds that there are more broadcasters involved in picking up a project.
Mr. O'Keeffe referred at the outset to the archive initiative we operate. It is important that the programming that is made, including radio programming, is all archived through the IFI and it is available to people. It will be important over time that one has material, especially on the radio side, that would not be available to the same extent in terms of local and community broadcasting in this country in order that the material that is being funded by the scheme is not just for broadcast at this point but is available through the archive for people to access on an ongoing basis.
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