Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Revised General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Steve Carson:
The commitment is there, and I hope we have been clear on that. We want to move into increasing independent spend as quickly as we can. However, we are currently in transition. We are going through a voluntary exit programme, which has been approved for this year. We do not have clarity and that is a decision to be made on future years. We need to make sure we are in a position to reduce our fixed costs, which includes head count, to be able to make sure that the spend we receive can then be put to the sector. We are increasing the spend on the sector and that 25% commitment is there.