Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

There is always a danger that if there are more licences, stations will become blander. While the BCI is committed to granting more licences, it is also trying to uphold quality. Some of the licences it has issued have been for specific areas and specific interests. Listenership figures show that we have not yet got to a stage where everything is very bland.

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