Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

I can answer the question that was asked about the Lowry tapes. This issue was covered in parts of RTE but not in as high-profile a way as the newspaper involved would have liked to have seen it covered. It was a purely editorial judgment, not just on my part but also involving senior people around the place. When we were criticised in one of the newspapers about our lack of coverage of the matter, I spoke to several people who had been deeply involved in the coverage of the tribunals and the whole matter that was covered in the tapes to see whether their judgment was that the tapes added a huge amount more to the story. The judgment of a number of individuals to whom I spoke was that it merited some coverage but probably not as much as the newspaper involved would have liked us to have given it. As I said to the editor of that newspaper, all of this sparked interest in several related areas which we are still looking at.