Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion
Mr. Séamus Dooley:
We are meeting the Minister next week. Unusually, the plan was launched in both the UK and Ireland and the UK Government has been much more active than the Irish Government. In fact, it established a weekly call with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport during the pandemic. We are behind the curve on this but we are meeting the Minister next week. One of the cornerstones of what we are suggesting is the windfall tax on tech giants because they have been free passengers on the bus, as it were, and all of us are united in terms of providing the big tech giants with a service that they exploit without giving anything to the media in return, to those who generate it. Many of the proposals we are talking about could be funded by that means.
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