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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: That is where we have the most price pressure which we highlighted quite clearly here last summer.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: General Scheme of the Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: I would like to ask Ms De Saulles for her assessment.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. Mr. Feeney commented that they are the leading print model at the local level. A former boss of mine, Mr. Frank Mulrennan, from Local Ireland, might disagree with him. He owns my local newspaper as well so I will give him a plug. I want to ask the witnesses some questions in respect of that. The newspapers they represent such as theCork Independent,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Is he aware how many free titles exist nationwide?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Some have popped up as well because they see a gap. The demographics of counties have changed. Where two major urban centres might go across county boundaries, they do not get represented perhaps in the traditional local newspaper, and a title sees a space in the marketplace and they flood it with local advertising but the content is atrocious. I am asking who the witnesses represent....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: In what regard?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: I give credit to the company for that. Is NUJ accreditation for journalistic staff part of the criteria?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: So the company does not operate chapels within the newsrooms.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Are all the nine members of the affiliated body members of the Press Council as well?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: How many journalists are there? Their numbers are diminishing. I walked into a newsroom 20 odd years ago when I interned in the Meath Chronicle. There was a full-time copy reader. That post would not exist in national newspapers let alone at provincial level. I worked for a relatively small newspaper and we still had seven full-time journalists. That newspaper went out of existence...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Photography was an issue when I was in the business. Journalists were asked to carry a phone and to take a picture, which was doing a photographer out of a job. How is photography conducted across the titles?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Okay. Just in terms of the advertising market, which is shrinking, I am sure the witnesses are in competition with paid-for titles in each area in terms of what appears on a rate card or in terms of sales representatives for advertising. It is a competitive market. In the period in which Mr. Feeney has been involved in the industry, have the diminishing returns, first, from the quantity of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: I have two more quick questions. The first is about distribution. Of the nine titles affiliated, how many are distributed to homes or are they picked up in local newsagents?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: In terms of circulation, I think Mr. Feeney mentions in his briefing note that approximately 250,000 are printed across the titles. Are they all on an equal status? Are there audited figures? I have been in plenty of newsrooms and I heard advertising sales representatives talk about circulation until the cows come home. Noughts were being added at a rate of knots depending on who they...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: I said at the outset that this is a particular interest of mine but I acknowledge that that cut in VAT last year was significant in allowing newspapers to have breathing space in the transitional period we are in. This is also the case with regard to the report of the Future of Media Commission, in allowing for funds which can be used. That is something that was done in the UK ten years ago...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Yes, there are.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Timmins point is a very fair one and I have no problem supporting it and saying he is 100% right. There is a very large publishing house in this country which owns many regional newspapers. There are about 40 pages every week in all of them that are the same, whether one lives in Drogheda, in Cork or in Wexford. It is replicated and there is bumf. One thinks one is getting an 80-page...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: The best help people can provide is to buy the local newspaper every week or avail of Mr. Timmins own product. Unfortunately-----

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: I thank our witnesses for their presentation, which was appreciated.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: This morning, the National Transport Authority, NTA, officially announced the new greater Dublin area transport strategy, which extends until 2042. This follows Cabinet approval of the document last week. One of the first projects listed by the CEO of the NTA, Anne Graham, is the Navan rail line. Having represented the town of Navan and having fought for this project for a long time, I am...