Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Strategic Plan 2012-17 and Other Issues: RTE

11:55 am

Mr. Noel Curran:

The factual situation with regard to media ownership in Ireland is that Sky is a multinational company, Communicorp is owned by one of the wealthiest individuals in the world and TV3 is owned by a international private equity firm. I was trying to highlight the differences between RTE and some of the other media companies.