Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

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

General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Rory Coveney:

I refer to the need to reconsider the regulation of the Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg, which governs the tariff model that exists on Saorview. It is not an RTÉ choice. This is the reality of the model that emerged out of an aspiration for a much broader, commercially-based DDT service, that never came to pass. Were the spectrum costs being shared among a much broader number of channels and providers, the model would be very different than it is today, unfortunately.

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