Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Challenges facing Public Broadcasting and the broader Media Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion

Ms Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin:

I will pick up on our local commitment. In respect of our news and daytime schedule, we have two bureaux, one in Limerick and one in Cork. We have also invested heavily in technology for all our camera crews so that we can report live from any location in the country. A significant development, which will have been observed in the context of Covid-19 and our #BackingBusiness initiative, is that we have committed to supporting local businesses around the country. We have moved our entire studio output for one day to our studio in Limerick to highlight what was happening there, and we have also been to Cork and Kilkenny. That is what we are doing with our studio-based content to support local output.

In addition, we are quite strategic in our commissioning. We have commissioned big dramas, such as "Blood" and "The Deceived", for example, which are Irish stories that have also sold internationally in the UK and the US. It has been the same with the formats we have created and are also selling internationally. It is an important factor for us to have collaboration nationally and globally.

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