Ms Barbara Galavan:

There is an exemption in Ireland whereby the cable operators do not have to pay for taking up the signal of our public service broadcasters.

Anyone who makes programmes, or is involved in making them, be it with production companies, directors, actors, or any part of the value chain, does not earn ongoing income from that, whereas in most other European territories they do. It would be quite a simple action on the part of Government to enact what is already part of a directive. This has not been enacted and as a result all parts of the creative value chain are losing.