Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Detailed Scrutiny of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion
1:00 pm
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It is about ensuring the archive is not abused, no more so than any of the other archives. That is what people are concerned about. There are different elements to it. Most of what we are talking about is what was broadcast and what was gained in advance of those broadcasts and anything that is available. There is other material. Only recently I put together a full archive for Club Chonradh na Gaeilge, which temporarily closed in the last few weeks. Everything from day one was collected, including all of the minute books and so on. Nobody will look at that, although maybe somebody will. It has been sent to the Galway library and some poor archivist there is going to have to-----
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