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. Adam Larragy:

On the content production levy, the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 introduced the legislative framework for the content production levy and left many of the details as to how it would be imposed and, in particular, the kind of content schemes that would be made on foot of the levy to Coimisiún na Meán and Screen Ireland. Either body can develop schemes to support content. There is a list of the type of audiovisual content that could be supported and categories therein, but a lot of the detail of how the schemes would be made and operated-----