Dr. Roderick Flynn:

I wanted to respond briefly to something that Senator O'Reilly said about scoliosis on RTE. That is precisely my point. It was on a publicly-funded broadcaster which, specifically since the 2009 Broadcasting Act, has to separate out its spending from commercial revenue and public funding. The public funding goes to news and current affairs, which facilitates precisely that kind of investigative work. That is why I am promoting the idea that if we take the news and current affairs function of our media seriously, we can no longer rely on a model which the gentlemen behind me have described as dead.