Mr. Paul Mulligan:

I explained at the beginning of my introduction that in order to make sure that we put into place our statement that there will not be any influence on our programmes, we have committees in place, one of which is a sponsorship committee. Usually, a proposal will come from our own sponsorship people who might say they are going to meet the Financial Regulator, which has expressed an interest in possibly doing something in RTE and whether it would be suitable for it to sponsor this programme. That would have been the request and I think the minute to which the Senator referred was from the minutes of such a meeting to say yes, it would be a lovely fit. As can be seen from other minutes I have dictated there, this is not always the case.