Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland
Mr. Jarlath Feeney:
We have taken a straightforward approach because we know what works. One of the requirements for entry into our group is that we have stringent checking of the circulation. There is only one acid test that we can do and that is ask them to provide invoices from the printer. That must represent the actual figure. Titles must produce three of those, which all of them have.
This is to show that this is the hard figure and it is not, as the Senator might have alluded to, some wished-for figure. This is an actual figure and until we get that, we do not allow them to be admitted.
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