Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the Sound and Vision scheme, a grant was made in recent weeks to a radio station based in Cork. An allocation of €65,000 was made last November. Some €80,000 went to Cork 96FM and C103 under the commercial radio round, and an award of €31,000 was made this April to Community Radio Youghal under the social benefit round. Coimisiún na Meán operates this scheme and it has all that detail.

On the question posed by Deputy Gould concerning the GAA, the management of broadcasting and commercial rights is a matter for each sports body. A challenge for sports bodies such as the GAA is striking the balance between generating revenue and ensuring there is as wide an audience as possible for the games. All of us, of course, want to see more games being broadcast on free-to-air television, especially those involving our own counties. The nature of how the championship has changed, though, means it is not practical to broadcast all matches.

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