Intent: Amendment to qualification criteria - increase in qualification threshold.
Details: Increased Cost of Business (ICOB) grant
Intent: to secure changes to the EU Council’s General Approah to require providers of user interfaces (including providers of in-car infotainment systems) to ensure that audio content services from licensed providers are granted appropriate discoverability and are easy to find.
Details: European Media Freedom Act
Intent: Communicate and ensure understanding of business position and the need for specific economic supports to ensure a sustainable future for businesses in the Experience Economy.
Details: Policy recommendations required to support Experience Economy
Intent: Inclusion of music in section 481. Support for composers in implementation of copyright directive into market practice, introduction of AVMS (Audio Video Media Services) levy on streamers and general awareness raising on composer and screen creatives issues
Details: Round table screen industry meeting with Minister Catherine Martin and Department officials
Intent: Reduction in excise; return of VAT 9% on food; cuts to SEO costs; energy supports for the licensed trade and the longer term, sustained investment in specific challenges facing Dublin - visible Garda presence, street cleaning and transport, particularly for the night-time economy
Details: Budget 2024
Intent: To update Ministers on the potential for Foreign Direct Investment in unscripted production in Ireland and its potential for job creation and investment in infrastructure
Details: The development of the unscripted production sector in Ireland
Intent: To discuss the Short-Term Let Registration Bill and support its passage through the Oireachtas.
Details: Meeting with the DPOs requested. Meeting held with Department officials.
Intent: Extensions to VAT 9% and TBESS
Details: Seeking VAT 9% and TBESS extensions
Intent: Meetings on 13th February & 16th March 2023: to communicate the need for interim funding for RTÉ pending a sustainable funding model and to communicate issues and concerns regarding funding of public service broadcasting.::Meeting on 25th April 2023: to communicate the urgency and need for clarity around licence fee reform.
Details: Subject matters: RTÉ current and future funding and licence fee.
Intent: Ensure awareness of Technology Ireland concerns regarding the overlap and divergence between the Online Safety and Media Regulations (OSMR) bill and the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Details: Digital Services Act and Online Safety and Media Regulations bill Overlap and Divergence
