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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: My local radio station, WLR FM, is offering media training for five voluntary groups across Waterford in the coming weeks. WLR FM has been running a broadcasting course for up-and-coming journalists in Waterford for the past 25 years or so. It is the type of initiative we need to see more funding for. Given that we have elections on the horizon, we need to look at the scope for increased...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Martin: Once the consultation in concluded in May, my Department and Coimisiún na Mean will work to get the schemes operational and to the market as early as possible. Since taking office in 2020, I have secured an additional €28.4 million in Exchequer funding for Sound and Vision. The Deputy is probably aware that WLR FM received almost €300,000 in the period 2020 to 2023 to...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Questions Nos. 5 and 6 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the scope for increasing the funding for recommendations made within the Report of the Future of Media Commission; and when funding from these proposals will be rolled out to media organisations nationwide, given that the local and European elections and the first directly-elected mayor election in Limerick will take place at the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: My question relates to the scope for increasing funding for recommendations from the Report of the Future of Media Commission. When will funding be rolled out, given we have future elections on the horizon, not least the local elections and the directly-elected mayoral elections coming up in the June this year?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Martin: The wider media sector in Ireland, which is a vital element of our democracy and society as a whole, is undergoing fundamental change. This is in part due to the increased digitalisation of news and media content generally and the associated decline in advertising revenue. For this reason, the Future of Media Commission was established to examine the challenges faced by the media sector and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: The Future of Media Commission report was a welcome step in safeguarding the public interest in journalism and media in Ireland. We have never probably had a more important time to promote and fund quality journalism, especially with the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation across the Internet. It is needed to address the severe threats that we are seeing from these multiple...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (18 Apr 2024)
Catherine Martin: I agree with the Deputy. As I said, we are in that final public consultation that closes in early May. At least we got the state aid approval. There are certain processes that have to be gone through, but Coimisiún na Mean has secured that. Television, radio, print, online and community media will all be eligible to apply for the funding, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria...