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

Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

In simple terms, instead of looking at broadcasting and video on demand, we will also look at the RTÉ website content. Taking the news website, for instance, there is a mix of areas there. You cannot just cut and paste the same codes across from broadcasting. We will have to look at what the standards are there. For example, content may change over the course of the day. If somebody takes a look at content at 9 a.m. and complains about what they see there, the version we look at might be completely different by the end of the day. It is simple logistical things we must consider how we manage them and what are the appropriate codes.