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

Mr. Brian Greene:

They are platform neutral by design so there is an opportunity to distribute them across the platforms but it seems from the courts reporting and local democracy schemes, which are the first two of the six out of the traps, that that is not the way it went. One platform seemed to get all of it. There are four more to come, namely, digital transformation, news reporting and then next year, media access and training and the community media fund. We hope they will serve us well. Maybe findings should be taken from the first running of the first two schemes to see if they can be tweaked so that the next four are improved before they come out of the traps.