Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

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

Importance of Airplay in Promoting Irish Music: Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is encouraging at least. That is positive. This brings me on to the next matter I want to speak about, which is the sound and vision scheme. Most recently I saw there was funding for the production of programming relating to environmental issues and climate change. Is it time that we go to a pay-per-play scenario whereby sound and vision scheme funding would be based on playing Irish music at different rates for day and night? There could be a higher rate during the day to encourage it. Is this something that could be considered as a funding carrot for radio stations?

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