Mr. Ciaran Moore:

It would be a major benefit for us. Again, it comes down to the concept of planning because, to a large extent, in each of the local communities where we work, there are different requirements, whether different skills needs or a need for facilities. It would be advantageous to be able to input into a five year plan how communities and skills will develop within a certain area and to identify objectives in community media within that area. This process will be starting in the second half of the year and it provides an opportunity for us to feed into identifying the requirements within a local area and leveraging other funds as well.

Dublin Community Television was focused on identifying existing training projects to which we could add media resources. For example, if a group of young unemployed people were being trained somewhere by FÁS, we would offer to do a course with them one day per week. Such synergies relating to the alignment process of community development work, education and media offer far greater value for money in the sense that a small amount of media funding can be matched with training and community development funding.