Please take ten minutes out to complete this survey, organised by a student at the IBS: http://www.surveymonkey.com/iom

Many supporters had active involvement in lobbying government over the UK's withdrawal of the Reciprocal Health Agreement. More detailed background information is available on this website: http://www.cancellationofreciprocalhealthagreement.org

Tynwald will be asked at its July sitting to receive a Report of the Management Committee and approve the recommendation to augment existing broadcasting proceedings with a 'listen again' (audio only) facility for a trial period of 12 months.

It will be offered via a 'modernised' Tynwald website and the Manx Radio website, the idea being to monitor uptake over the trial period and if successful to eventually upgrade to a video service i.e. webcasting.

PAG presented the idea of webcasting to the Management Committee almost three years ago - it's taken that long to consider the idea and, not unexpectedly, to reject it. 'We can't afford it' is the reason given in the Report.

Attachments:

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r0025.pdf	Tynwald Management Committee Report - "Broadcasting and Webcasting of Proceedings" - June 2010	312 Kb	0	10/07/10 16:44

Positive Action Group regrets that the consultation document was not released as promised by the Chief Minister only 3 weeks ago.

During Tynwald questions:

The Hon. Member for Douglas East (Mr Robertshaw) to ask the Chief Minister:
In light of Recommendation 1 of the Report of the Select Committee on the Report of Redress for Mr and Mrs Spadoni, whether the Chief Minister will now declare a firm date when he intends to introduce an Access to Government Information Bill?