Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. John Purcell:

The key disadvantage is if you are doing the work already you cannot be supported in continuing to do it. A quirk in the additionality provision is if for some reason you stopped doing the work you would be in a position to then do it. We maintain that allowing a situation to develop where news services wither, weaken and ultimately disappear from view before appropriate funding is provided is inherently wrong and needs to be addressed.

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