Seanad debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Broadcasting Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

2:00 am

Photo of Martin BradyMartin Brady (Fianna Fail)

I generally agree with the thrust of Senator O'Reilly's amendments because in any business one has to engage in long-term financial forecasting. It is very difficult to do that within a five-year period. There is also the issue of staff security and jobs. A person in employment would feel very insecure if he or she did not know what would happen at the end of five years. It is right and proper to link the two amendments because digital broadcasting and digital radio will be affected also because significant investment will be required to get involved in digital radio. Given that it is uncharted waters, we do not know where we are going at this stage in regard to digital radio and we do not know what the take-up will be. For those reasons the amendments make sense and I ask the Minister of State to look favourably on them.

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