Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As I said earlier, I am a sports person. Sport plays a very large and important in all our lives. During Covid, people really got into sports. People love looking at live games and international games. I have a problem regarding free to view. I am not picking on Sky. The reason I am focusing on Sky is that it provides a lot of coverage. I love looking at golf but the only place I can see it is on Sky for which I must pay. RTÉ gets the licence fee and commercial advertising revenue. Sky gets advertising revenue and subscriptions. What is the breakdown? To what degree does it depend on subscriptions? To be honest, people just cannot afford to pay it but they want to see it because Sky provides fantastic coverage. What is the breakdown? Is it 50:50? I am sure the advertising money must be very high.

I come from Louth where they are trying to build a stadium but they do not have the money. I will not ask anybody if they want to sponsor a stadium. We are trying very hard. We had a problem with Mr. McBennett this year.