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:
Yes. They are set out in the legislation for Coimisiún na Meán and Screen Ireland. The reasoning was to keep it as independent from Government as possible. However, there is scope within the primary legislation to address some of the issues the Deputy raised about, say, what is an independent producer for the purposes of the scheme in terms of identifying the types of people who could be supported as well as the types of content that could be supported. Schemes could target different types of content. The detail is left to either Screen Ireland or Coimisiún na Meán as the case may be. The way it works is they would submit a scheme for the Minister's approval, but they would be the designers of the scheme. That is the legislative framework as it exists for content production.