Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

RTE will have to provide the Irish stations on a free-to-air basis but it is conceivable that it will have to pay for anything it gets subsequently. It will then have to decide how it, in turn, will get paid for it. Without going into too much detail, I am aware that RTE is considering a variety of possibilities, one of which might be that some mutual arrangement will be made by the BBC, UTV and RTE regarding multiplexes and services to each other. It is possible, however, that the BBC, UTV or some of those channels would be on a "pay-as-you-view" basis.

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