Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion
Mr. Tom Ryan:
I am not deaf to any of these issues. The feedback that Members of the Oireachtas were getting is the same as the feedback we were getting. The only thing I would like to try to communicate is that when there is a limitation in terms of capacity there are choices that have to be made. I completely understand the perspective of the gentleman who wanted to see a particular game in Deputy O'Sullivan's constituency. I can guarantee that in every other constituency around the country people would have had the same sentiment if that was the game that had been shown. GAAGO is showing more games than we were ever able to broadcast. We have more games free-to-air than we ever broadcast before. I want to repeat the little word of caution. It is not reasonable to think that we will get to a stage where every game will be shown. We are completely open to looking at solutions with scheduling-----
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