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:
If I may add something that people may not be aware of, there is another aspect that probably makes us unique among the groups gathered here this evening, namely, that members of Independent Broadcasters of Ireland pay in the region of €2.5 million each year to the regulator to be regulated. We are regulated but we pay €2.5 million to be regulated. To put this in the context of the amount mentioned by Mr. Kelly that is provided through Sound and Vision, which was approximately €800,000 over three years, during the same period, we paid €7.5 million to the regulator. That is a unique factor that must be borne in mind in relation to our business model.
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