Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Dr. Roderick Flynn:

The Commission would have said, "Yes, that is grand, away you go". If we were, for example, to deal with additionality by saying we were going to take that out of the Irish rule, we would have to send that back in. I am not a lawyer - I know policy but I am not a lawyer - but my understanding is that there is nothing in the state aid rules as they relate to this that demands additionality should be there. My feeling is that we would have a good chance of just taking it out again.