{"id":495034,"date":"2026-06-11T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495034\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:37:12","slug":"mayo-deputy-raises-broadcasting-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495034\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Deputy raises broadcasting levy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Mayo Deputy has raised the issue of the increase in the broadcasting levy in the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n<p>The levy \u2013 which applies to all independent radio stations \u2013 has increased 69% over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis by the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland equates the price hike to more than 1.5 million euro.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n and the Department of Communications were recently questioned about the increase by the Oireachtas Media Committee.<\/p>\n<p>While the Department said they were \u201cconcerned\u201d about the increase, they said there was nothing they could do about the regulator\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n said the increase in the levy was driven by higher pay costs, increased professional fees for research and legal advice, and the inclusion of a provision for working capital.<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael TD for Mayo Keira Keogh spoke about the levy in the D\u00e1il this morning\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KEOGHLEVYEVE.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KEOGHLEVYEVE.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mayo Deputy has raised the issue of the increase in the broadcasting levy in the D\u00e1il. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-495034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}