Mr. Robert Pitt:

I propose to answer Deputy Lawless's question first. I am very glad he brought it back to the quality of jobs. This cannot be a last-man-standing argument. One must enjoy working in a newspaper; it is a vocation as can be seen particularly with the journalists who write for a newspaper. Professor Kenny said it is difficult for young people to come into this industry. We hired 12 graduates, fully paid, on a two-year programme and they are still with INM at the moment. That was a huge investment in a very distressed business. That is because we understand the need for a pipeline of young people who want to work in newspapers, who want to write copy, who want to take photographs and so forth.

I agree with Professor Kenny on the challenges the industry faces. We are trying to address them and create quality jobs. We improved the maternity benefits for people in INM from three weeks to 24 weeks last year to better allow people with a young family to be able to continue their career. This is alongside all the other things we do in terms of reorganising the business. Some of them can seem harsh, but they are decisions that somebody has to take and I will take those decisions. However, we cannot sacrifice quality, which, as I understand from my retail experience, is paramount. We have to provide something that people want to buy or transact with; and we have that in INM. Of course, when we make changes to how we produce a newspaper and make changes to the volumes of content, we have to make some kind of value decision based on what the person gets and so forth. We, in INM, have been very balanced on that.