Mr. Dermot Horan:

There is. As the Senator will see, we have already done so over recent years. I cited all the dramas we have commissioned in association with our partners here, such as "Obituary", "North Sea Connection" and "Kin". "Kin" has been number one on the BBC iPlayer in the UK for the past month. "Love/Hate" is now doing very well on ITVX, which is ITV's streamer, off the back of the success of "Kin". We are getting an international reputation for drama. We are already doing more drama and want to do more. With Element Pictures, we developed "The Dry", which got a five-star review in The Guardian stating it should win all the awards in the UK. We hope it will win all the awards in Ireland as well. We are doing more but we want to do even more.

The other issue we have to look at is the way people consume media these days. People do not just sit down at 6 p.m., have their tea and watch telly until 11.30 p.m. People probably have one and a half to two hours available to watch what I describe as sit-back television. They may have already got their news from their iPhone or Android phone. We need to give them high-quality content because we have to compete with the streamers. What is being watched on the RTÉ Player, more than any other genre besides live sport, is drama and scripted content. It is incumbent on all broadcasters to increase that because it is what the audience wants.