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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I am thinking about the ambition as well as one key element.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: What is the best model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I am conscious that I am speaking on the record on this, but when talking about public service media, what are the countries we should look at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I again put on the record that Finland has always been a place that we have said we should benchmark ourselves against.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: This follows on from Deputy Ó Snodaigh's questions. As someone who grew up with S4C coming in to me from the Welsh coast, it is also a useful model in terms of looking at the objectives that were set out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I want to talk about the streaming levy, which it is critical to put in place. We had years of debate and I thought it was a settled argument. We had a discussion only yesterday evening about the net effect of the cost on the streamers. The committee might look at the fact that the cost of streaming services in Ireland is higher for the consumer than is the case anywhere else, especially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: It is crucial that we praise the quality of the productions that have been created here in Ireland. I put this question to whoever wants to take it up. Who will commission a decent Irish political drama?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I remember that. It has been a while since there has been one. There has been a book published about Leinster House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: We see the quality of some of the drama and documentaries coming out by all of the providers and it does require funding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: This is why I am worried about the legislation not being sufficiently ambitious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The Chair is really getting into it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence mentioned by Ms Kirby will be doing a module on AI and creativity in the autumn. We are now consuming media in so many ways. It is on our phones and right across the board. This comes back to where the Sound and Vision fund and media fund are. It is about recognising diversity but there is also a role for what I would call nation-building....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Can we do something more specifically in the legislation on that?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on education and training as well as employment provisions in Irish prisons; and his views on how these measures can work to prevent recidivism. [33089/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (18 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his priorities for the forthcoming EU budgetary negotiations, particularly with regard to the next Common Agricultural Policy. [33090/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Refurbishment (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I welcome that the Minister of State indicated the stage 2b process is in its final stages. However, he knows as well as I do that the critical next step is moving to a tender so that a contractor will be appointed. With the best will in the world, even if the Minister of State announced tonight that stage 2b was complete and it was moving to tender, we would still probably be looking at...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Refurbishment (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister of State for staying to this late hour to take this question about Coláiste Bhríde in Carnew, Wicklow. This is a progressive secondary school of almost 1,000 pupils which serves a predominantly rural area in south Wicklow as well as parts of north Wexford and south Carlow. The local community rightly takes great pride in this school. The whole school...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I thank the Minister for bringing forward this legislation. The bigger debate we need to have is precisely that around the funding of local authorities. It is interesting that our debate is focusing on the question of the local property tax. The Minister will be aware that the overall budget for local authorities in the country is in the order of €6.7 billion annually. We are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [29735/25]