Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minster but as she is aware, I am talking about the short-term media Covid task force. It would address the Covid-specific issues I have outlined, which have literally turned the sector upside down over the past nine months and which, unfortunately, will be with us for the foreseeable future. The Minister said the commission will address the issues into the future in a long-term way but I am sure she has been lobbied by various stakeholders offering ideas and solutions and airing their problems and concerns that have yet to be addressed. We had the media representatives before the Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht and they echoed similar concerns. As I said, they are concerned that there is no end date in terms of the report of the Future of Media Commission.

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They specifically expressed the need for something in the short term to deal with Covid-specific issues. Would it be something the Minister would consider given the dire financial circumstances they are in?

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