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. Michael Kelly:

In terms of this legislation, probably the best way to address that is by ensuring that there was some kind of multi-annual funding and to remove the specific requirement that people can only be employed as a freelancer or on a one-year contract. That would actually be a diminution of the terms and conditions in our sector. They would be less than the standard terms and conditions because our sector would tend to employ permanent staff. We just cannot agree with that because it is a gig economy solution to a very serious problem.