Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Concerns around media ownership have been doing the rounds since 1999. At the time the report of the Council of Ministers adopted recommendations on measures to promote media plurality.

Radio stations such as Tipp FM and Tipp Mid West Radio are my local stations. Deputy Eugene Murphy, who has just left the Chamber, was a voice of local radio for many years. I compliment his party - I was a member of the party at the time – on setting up local radio on a statutory footing in 1989. There were many pirate radio and community radio stations at the time. We still have wonderful community radio in Tipperary, for example, Tipp Mid West Radio. I compliment the station on the exposure it gives all of us, including myself. Some people complain about it.

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