Ms Dee Forbes:

We welcome the publication of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. While there are amendments to propose and detailed work to do, the point about the levy is important. There are companies coming into this jurisdiction, if you like, and not creating content for this jurisdiction. Other countries, as the Senator knows, have brought in this levy. We have done work as a combined industry, with Screen Ireland, TG4 and Screen Producers Ireland, to say we need a levy like this because it would create some much-needed funding for Irish programming. We support that.