Results 941-960 of 2,343 for speaker:Michael Colreavy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Community Broadcasting: Discussion (30 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: I assume we will do a report for the Minister at the end of this process. Should we be encouraging Departments and local authorities to consider this when they are considering putting out and paying for public service notices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Community Broadcasting: Discussion (30 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Where is the horizon for certainty of funding for the sector at present? How far ahead can it look with certainty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Community Broadcasting: Discussion (30 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: From year to year, therefore, the stations do not know with certainty that they will have enough to pay the electricity for the next year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Community Broadcasting: Discussion (30 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: I thank the delegates for appearing before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Community Broadcasting: Discussion (30 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: I thank the Deputy. This is an area that, as legislators, we have not discussed enough. For years the only operators in this area were RTE, various local radio stations and Sky TV. The message from citizens as we develop alternative ways of communicating and listen more to what they are saying is that there is a gap in communications. Citizens believe they not alone have the ability but...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Sinn Féin's goal is to create a united Ireland based on social justice, equality and democratic accountability, an Ireland where access to health care is based on need rather than on wealth, place of residence, gender or any other social status. Our vision is of a seamless all-Ireland health service based on universal public provision that provides full equality of access and that is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Not yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: If that contract with middlemen has been renewed, I am still puzzled as to what is in it for them, given the wider availability. Mr. O'Neill said there was an oversight and he had forgotten to tell the media the GAA had signed another three-year deal with Premium Sports. Was that an oversight?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Are they the only three companies the GAA is in partnership with?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: I understand Sky did not cover all Heineken Cup games in 2006, but it did in 2007. On the percentage of households reached by RTE and pay-TV sports channels, 99% had RTE 1 and RTE 2, 25% had Setanta, 25% had Sky Sports 1, while 17% had Sky Sports 3. That is the scale involved. If it was within the capability of RTE, TV3 and TG4 to handle all of the games, would we be having this discussion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Does the GAA deal with retransmission companies in the United States? I received an e-mail this morning from a chap in the United States about companies such as Premium Sports and Ustream in San Francisco.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Have the contracts with Premium Sports and Ustream been renewed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Does the GAA benefit from that contractual arrangement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Surely that is something that should have been reviewed now that we are talking about expanding and making the games more accessible to the diaspora. Was it explored?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: The issue is, if we now have different ways of making the games available to the diaspora in the USA, Australia and elsewhere, why are we still paying middlemen to make money out of retransmitting the games?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: It still seems that there was an opportunity, using RTE Digital, to eliminate the need for middlemen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: At a certain time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: I thank the two delegates for coming before us. I represent Sligo-North Leitrim and I am sorry to say we do not trouble the GAA very often in Croke Park.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Broadcasting Rights: Gaelic Athletic Association (15 Apr 2014)
Michael Colreavy: Yes, there is always next year. Reference was made to Mr. Colin Regan. The GAA has taken the very best from County Leitrim when it has Mr. Regan working with it. He is an exceptionally fine man.