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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: "Holidays" might not be the right word. I let us all down there. I have an All-Ireland to win so I will not be going on too many holidays. I am sorry; I have to leave shortly. A levy is going to have an impact on GAA+ and LOITV in terms of consumer costs and what people will pay for the content. On the other hand, there will also be extra revenue for GAA+ and LOITV from the media fund....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Does GAA+ ever work with Clubber?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: The format of production is quite similar. Could any economies of scale be achieved by everyone working together?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I understand that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: It could be a recommendation of the committee. Regarding viewership, who is watching? Could we get a breakdown based on demographics and geography?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: What are the age profiles of viewers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Who initiated the conversation about the sale of GAAGO?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry if I missed this question earlier. It may have been asked. Was it initiated by the GAA because it wanted to cash out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Basically, it wanted RTÉ to cash out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Okay. The conversation began with the GAA. It was all about controlling your own destiny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Quinn might come back to us as fast as he can before we move on to other work in a week's time. We will go around again. I call Deputy Joanna Byrne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I call Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: That was a good question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Not that it mattered to the result.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: That is not going to change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I have a few final questions and I thank our witnesses for their time. Off the top of Mr. Scanlon's head, what is the total revenue from LOITV?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: If I was Minister for media, and I was to say to everyone here we will not solve the piracy issue in Ireland because it is a global issue, but as regards the licence fee, we will stick a tenner at the end of a tick box, which the majority of people will surely pay, would that be acceptable to the witnesses? We have 668,232 licence payers in Ireland that proportionately we could divide it out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am just thinking of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am being a bit facetious, obviously, but there are a number of issues here. The GAA is part of Ireland's culture as is GAA+. It is frustrating for many people. There are platform issues still, by the way. I am more familiar with GAAGO, but there are platform issues from time to time. I also have elderly parents. Well, my dad passed away recently. He used to have to come to me to watch...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: The famous Saorview list that comes with the Saorview box probably needs to be updated as it is a bit clunky. If we imagine that LOI 1 and 2, GAA 1 and 2 and all those games were available on Saorview, the advertising capacity if that would generate other potential revenues because those games would obviously have a massive audience. That is just a thought. As many members have said, the...