Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Chapter 7 - Oversight of Funding for the European Capital of Culture 2020
9:30 am
Ms Katherine Licken:
In budget 2022, we got €5.5 million for the establishment of the media commission. As the Deputy probably knows, the Minister hopes to publish the legislation soon. The Oireachtas joint committee made 33 recommendations, which we are working through in the pre-legislative scrutiny. We are anxious to proceed with this as fast as possible because we understand the pressures out there and all the issues to which the Deputy has alluded. The whole purpose of the media commission is to address those issues.