Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses. Newspaper circulation has more than halved and advertising spending is moving online. The financial model underpinning traditional journalism is slowly beginning to crumble. The question of the long-term viability of journalism has been looming for some time and it has been brought into sharp focus during the pandemic. Does the Future of Media Commission accept the need for remuneration for content or the implementation of a digital tax, a system by which local media companies are remunerated for the use of their content by tech companies, remediating their problem, including the implementation of the copyright directive and the consideration of the new Australian model? Has that been reviewed?

What are the witnesses' views on a tax on global tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, to create a fund to support public service content creation to address the challenges they face?