Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

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

Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion

Photo of Christopher O'SullivanChristopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It caused friction in the household. This is an example of what went on.

Another individual subscribed to GAAGO but the match started buffering. It kept buffering and it paused and he gave up. He missed out on the game. My father has a Nokia 3210 and an old dinosaur of a television. My parents could not stream it. Unfortunately they ended up missing out on the same Cork and Tipperary game. This is an example of what was going on. This is what we were responding to at the time.

We are looking for a solution to this. It is not perfect. GAAGO does open up opportunities and Mr. Ryan has said more games are being broadcast. We need to facilitate those people in areas where broadband is not good or adequate. Unfortunately we are not there yet. We have responsibility for this. We need to facilitate these people so we need to use all potential solutions, including stations such as TG4, RTÉ, Virgin Media, Sky or whatever it is.

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