Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

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

Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Alan Esslemont:

I am proud of the way we do minority sports. Unlike other channels, we do not cherry-pick. We try to build from the grassroots. We are already doing female soccer. Rather than going for the big numbers in international soccer, we have decided to build from the ground up. I think that has been appreciated. As I said, the one thing currently restraining TG4 from doing more in building up grassroots sport in Ireland is our funding. If that changes or we could even could reach the same level as the Welsh language channel, we could do so much more.

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