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

1:00 pm

Mr. Michael O'Keeffe:

There is a couple of points on it. While we agree with it in part, we do attempt - I covered this point earlier with Deputy Dowds - to give pre-eminence to certain genres. For example, it was mentioned that in 2012 we prioritised drama and animation. We are doing that.

It is an open system. It is an open competitive process. We did consider at one point having rounds devoted to particular genres exclusively and we got strong resistance from the stakeholders to that. They prefer the open rounds.

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