Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33: Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Programme E - Broadcasting

9:30 am

Ms Dee Forbes:

On page 110 of the annual report, it is outlined that for 2020, we spent just over €17 million on drama, compared with, for example, €67 million on news and current affairs. The Deputy is correct. We should be investing more in drama. We wish to do so and the way we are doing it is by bringing more parties together. Even at that, however, we should be spending more and it is an area on which we would love to spend more should the funding come our way. It is the place where we see ourselves-----

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