Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

The Role of the Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion

Ms Celene Craig:

Certainly. In the current year a total of €22.5 million was committed to this scheme, principally from our own Department. The Minister, Deputy Martin, made quite a considerable level of additional funding of €8 million available, over and above the percentage which would normally come to the BAI from the licence fee. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications also committed €2.5 million. The focused round of sound and vision, that is the climate round, was a total of €5 million. The Minister, Deputy Martin, had identified €2.5 million from the additional funds she had provided this year for this and this sum was matched by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications’s commitment just mentioned, which amounted to €5 million altogether. This is the amount we expect to be announcing.