Broadcasting Bill 1999
Public bill · Government · Presented
Would introduce digital terrestrial television with six transmission systems, while expanding and renaming the broadcasting regulator to oversee content across television, radio, cable, satellite and digital services. It would establish Teilifís na Gaeilge as a public-service broadcaster, strengthen complaints and accessibility rules, fund local and community radio transmission, and require RTÉ to support independent television production.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make further provision in relation to broadcasting, for that purpose to make separate provision in relation to the following discrete aspects of broadcasting, namely, the supply of programme material for the purpose of its being transmitted and the transmission of such material that is so supplied to confer on 2 companies designated by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands for that purpose functions in relation to such transmission and, as regards such transmission that is effected by digital means in relation to the combination of material as aforesaid and related and other data in digital form, to confer additional functions on the Independent Radio and Television Commission and rename that body as Coimisiún Craolacháin na hÉireann or, in the English language, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, to establish a body to be known as Teilifís na Gaeilge and to define its functions, to amend the Broadcasting Authority Acts, 1960 to 1993, and certain other enactments and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
- Fifth StageDáil
- Second StageSeanad
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- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: From the Seanad. Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Report and Final Stages. Seanad
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Committee Stage. Seanad
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage. Seanad
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Report Stage. Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed). SELECT COMMITTEE on HERITAGE and the IRISH LANGUAGE
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed). SELECT COMMITTEE on HERITAGE and the IRISH LANGUAGE
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Committee Stage (Resumed). SELECT COMMITTEE on HERITAGE and the IRISH LANGUAGE
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Committee Stage. SELECT COMMITTEE on HERITAGE and the IRISH LANGUAGE
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Order for Second Stage. Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage. Dáil
- Broadcasting Bill, 1999: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil