Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail)
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I appreciate the commission will have a role in its implementation but I do not see any reason the research could not be done. We have heard considerable evidence and some of it is competing. Other countries have made a decision. I do not accept the argument that we have to wait until the media commission is established before a content levy can be established. I appreciate there are political decisions about the form of levy and all of that, but I am not clear on why we have to wait for the commission to be established. Why can we not have the research carried out, design the model and so on and put it in place? The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has designed schemes previously. I am not clear as to the rationale.