Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Bill would create a Broadcasting Funding Scheme, managed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and funded with 5% of net television licence-fee income—about €8 million a year. Grants would support programmes about Irish culture, heritage and experience, adult literacy, Irish-language broadcasting, local and community broadcasting, and the preservation and archiving of programmes.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide that the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland prepare a scheme or schemes for the funding of grants to support certain television and radio programmes and projects out of an amount of 5 per cent of net receipts for television licence fees, to outline the objectives of a scheme and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018