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Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire go dtí an Teach chun an Bille seo a phlé. Ba mhaith liom aontú le mórán a bhfuil ráite ag an Seanadóir O'Toole. Aontáim leis gur cóir go mbeadh muintir na nGaeltachtaí agus Gaelgeoirí úsáid a bhaint as ár dteanga dhúchais i gcónaí. Tá dualgas orainn go léir atá ag obair sa Stát Seirbhís ní hamháin an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn ach í a...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: The arguments have been well made by the Opposition. I lend my voice to support the call for an incremental increase to 5%. That appears to be the optimum and something in which the industry is interested. As Senator Norris has said, the independent television arising from this fund has produced interesting, informative and excellent programmes. I have no doubt the same will happen in...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Does the person who tabled the amendment not speak first?

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: While there can be hardship cases, equally we need to safeguard against people playing the old soldier. I have come across people who do not pay their television licence fees and have other financial commitments they do not meet. Often if their lifestyles are examined it is not that they cannot afford to pay, but that they have made a conscious decision to prioritise some other...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Dé Céadaoin, 25 Meitheamh 2008.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: As we are not sure whether the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Power, will take Report Stage, I would like to compliment him on the exemplary manner in which he has dealt with Committee Stage in recent days. It is a huge Bill consolidating many of the Broadcasting Acts and that whole important area. The manner in which he engaged with the Seanad exploited the parliamentary process to its...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Ag 10.30 a.m. ar Déardaoin, 19 Meitheamh 2008.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Aontaím go hiomlán leis an méid atá ráite ag na Seanadóirí ar an dtaobh eile mar gheall ar chúrsaí spóirt, traidisiúnta agus cultúrtha. In the area of Irish culture and music, local radio has played a very important role, along with TG4. RTE and TV3 have not been as proficient in that respect as we would like. I am unsure as to whether we need to be prescriptive in legislation....

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: I welcome this section, which deals with access to archives. It is a very good provision in the Bill. In the 46 years since RTE was established it has built up quite an archive, and it is important that this be available to historians and other researchers. It is very much to be welcomed. In addition, given that RTE has some new competitors, it is important that these companies are in a...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: The first broadcast was the 1962 All-Ireland.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: It was between Wexford and Tipperary.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Unfortunately Tipperary won.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: The Senator was talking about the big one.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Wexford lost by two points.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: At the risk of setting loose another hare, I wish to comment on the dissemination of information, a matter on which I have a strong view given the events of last week. EU members states are covered under subsection (2), but there is no mention of the EU institutions, namely the European Parliament or the Commission. I have been conscious of this issue for a while but it became more...

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: We are talking about hares rather than hairs.

Seanad: Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: I listened with interest to what the Minister of State had to say and some of his points were valid. Given the proliferation of English channels here, there should be some reciprocity because there is a large Irish diaspora in Britain. Our television and radio stations should be readily available in that jurisdiction. One of the issues that arose in the referendum campaign relating to the...

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: Senator Ross's final comment says it all. I have heard many opponents of the treaty, and even some who support it, make the point that we must go back to Europe. What do they mean by this? This is Europe. We are part of Europe; it is not something separate. That type of mentality is entirely alien to the vision of Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet, who recognised in the early 1950s, in the...

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: It is a view with which I can identify.

Seanad: Lisbon Treaty: Statements (18 Jun 2008)

Jim Walsh: It is a view I would have subscribed to 30 years ago.