Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

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

Future of the Media Sector: Discussion

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses. Mr. Lynch mentioned the non-television homes. There has been an increase to 16.5% in that regard. We are talking about the future of public broadcasting. We dealt with the print media at the committee before Christmas. Of course, in the budget the Government reduced VAT to zero but it is a stop-gap measure. As a person who has worked in the print media, I know that section of our media is in a dire state. In the context of the growing number of non-television homes and the report that was published today, are we looking at stop-gap measures if Exchequer funding is put in? By the way, the report published this morning has dodged the crucial issue again in one sense. The witnesses have come in here and we have dodged the issue once again in terms of saying that it will be looked at as an imperative. Is there a future for traditional media? Mr. Murray touched on this when he referred to US figures indicating that US media markets will imminently go purely to the streaming services. Is there is a future for us in that context?

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