Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do. I apologise for not being here. I had another meeting. That is the nature of the place.

I am very supportive of the intention of the Bill. To follow up on what was mentioned regarding copyright and residuals, RTÉ has a lot of material. We all want to see, and have access to, as much of the content it has. It is the author of it, although we, the public, paid for it. I refer to where there is an ongoing dispute or there is not open copyright. Anyone of my era will remember "The Spike", which all of a sudden disappeared. I still want to see the last episode of it, although not the one which was pulled off the air. There were one or two more episodes due. "Strumpet City" was another absolutely brilliant production produced by RTÉ, although maybe it was produced on licence; I do not remember. There is a dispute concerning "Strumpet City" where the actors were paid for a one-off, or there were no residuals or whatever. That can still be made available through an archive but it must be very restrictive to ensure nobody can abuse it. That is where the regulations must be very tight in order that people cannot willy-nilly reproduce it. It is no different from the Book of Kells, which has been copyrighted. I do not know how you copyright something so old, but it has been copyrighted.