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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: 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...

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 totally. Basically people would log in.

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

Alan Kelly: They would be permanently logged in. I presume the GAA would agree with that?

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

Alan Kelly: They are two slightly different points but the same thing in a different way. This is actually a very important point and something we can probably help with. If Mr. Quinn and Mr. Webb write to the committee regarding both sides of what they just said - one on the EPG and one on the app-----

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

Alan Kelly: -----we will try to bring that through. That is a good end to our meeting. I thank the witnesses for their time. We will now suspend for a short break.

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

Alan Kelly: This is our second session of the day. We will continue our pre-legislative scrutiny of the revised general scheme of the broadcasting (amendment) Bill. In this session we will hear from the NUJ, RTÉ trade union group, SIPTU, and Unite the Union. I warmly welcome the following witnesses to the meeting: Mr. Séamus Dooley, Irish secretary of the NUJ, Mr. Cearbhall Ó...

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 thank Mr. O'Brien. I thank all the witnesses for their comprehensive statements. We will now put questions for four minutes, beginning with Senator Comyn.

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

Alan Kelly: Would Mr. Kane and Mr. Gerry O'Brien like to come in briefly as well?

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

Alan Kelly: Could Mr. Gerry O'Brien respond very briefly?

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 was remiss of me not to welcome Jessica Freed, SIPTU vice president.

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 sounds fairly startling.