Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of meetings his Department has had with organisations (details supplied) in relation to Saorview; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7572/14]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Officials in my Department and I meet with TG4 on a regular basis to discuss a range of policy and Corporate Governance matters; most recently my officials met with TG4 in January of this year. These meetings are supplemented by frequent informal communications. Discussions occasionally include TG4's HD carriage on Saorview, notwithstanding the commercial nature of any such decisions and the Company's independence in that regard.In respect of the Irish Film Channel and Oireachtas TV, both my Officials and I have had discussions on this matter with the Ceann Comhairle and the Irish Film Board formally and informally over the period in question.

On foot of these discussions, in June 2012 I met with the Ceann Comhairle to discuss the provision of Oireachtas TV on the Saorview platform, which was followed in September of that year by a further meeting at official level.