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 support the call in respect of the bursary that exists within community radio. We have seen young journalists and graduates get opportunities for training in real-life situations, which are becoming fewer and fewer in number from two decades ago. I support anything that aids that.

I have just one final question to Virgin and RTÉ. I commend them on working on the collaboration that took place on the sports partnership for the Six Nations. We are under threat across a whole range of areas in respect of pay-per-view television, so to see two domestic stations working together to secure that is to be welcomed. Going back to the viability of the stations, I wish to ask Mr. Farrell about other areas of collaboration that could be pushed for. He has spoken previously about picking up the phone to Dee Forbes and starting that conversation. Are there other areas where he thinks the two stations could potentially work together?

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