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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I will bring in Senator McDowell and then Deputy Lowry. If any other member is offering, I might take a third member after that - Senator Lombard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: Following Senator Lombard, I will go back to TV3.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: Could we get a response to the questions on advertising, how TV3 could collaborate with RTE and Brexit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: Thank you, Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I ask Senator Dolan to stick to questions because we have another session immediately after this one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I appreciate the Senator's brevity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: There was a question on collaboration between RTE and TV3.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. The opening statements and submissions will be published on our website. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will suspend for five minutes to allow the session B witnesses to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the witnesses from the following organisations who are appearing on behalf of the platform providers; Sky Ireland, Virgin Media Ireland, Eir, Vodafone Ireland and CIL Managment Consultants. Sky Ireland is represented by Mr. J.D. Buckley, managing director, and Mr. David Wheeldon, group director policy and public affairs. Mr. Tony Hanway, chief executive officer, and Ms Kate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: Does Mr. Buckley wish to speak again briefly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I call Mr. Hanway of Virgin Media.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. Hanway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank Mr. Hanway. We will move on to Eir. I invite its CEO, Mr. Richard Moat, to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: We will now hear from Vodafone and a presentation from Mr. Liam O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: Does the representative from CIL Management wish to make a statement or will Ms Elwes contribute during the questions afterwards? I do not know how long her contribution is but I am conscious of the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: No. We will take questions and, if there are any gaps, Ms Elwes can indicate and I will call on her to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I invite Mr. Wheeldon to respond. We will wrap up shortly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I will bring in Mr. Zeff and will then go back to members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: I will bring in the witnesses after. Will the Deputy hold on to that question for a moment? If I may ask one question myself, there is an argument put out that if there were transmission fees, the market would not allow the providers to increase their-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Retransmission Fees: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Hildegarde Naughton: For a consumer that is the argument. The marketplace will not let the providers increase the price charged to consumers for the packages. The witnesses made reference to Italy, where that is bypassed. The representatives from Sky said that it is possible to mitigate the impact of the transmission fees by putting in a Saorview equivalent box. Will the witnesses respond to the argument that...