Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

RTÉ has drawn up a new draft strategy for the future of public broadcasting, but unfortunately it does not have any budget certainty on how it can afford it. There is now talk that the sports department might get the coverage rights for the Cork Constitution FC under-15 B team if it is lucky, and it is the same across the rest of the organisation.

As I understand it, the broadcasting (amendment) Bill is ready to come back to the Dáil. There was also a major report from the Oireachtas joint committee, which has been presented to the House, and it advocated a range of measures that would give not just RTÉ but all Irish media, including print, access to an additional fund of perhaps €50 million to try to get them through the present crisis.

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