Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion

Mr. John Purcell:

Very briefly, I refer to Dr. Wheatley mentioning about regulations or outlines of policies on covert recording or reporting and so on. Our members operate under the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, codes in relation to news, current affairs, fairness, balance, impartiality etc. so a lot of that stuff exists already for us as a regulated sector. We feel we already carry a huge burden of regulation, codes, compliance and so on. The gap is in relation to viability. The choice ultimately will be the content or leaving the obligations go and letting us go. That is the conundrum.

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