Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I have just a few more questions on the finance side. Ireland has one national broadcaster and we just take it as it is. The best judge of how that broadcaster performs is probably through comparison with television stations in other countries. I will ask some simple questions. What is the average cost of content for one hour? What is the average cost per hour of bought-in programming and home-produced programming, be they produced internally or through local production companies? How do RTÉ's figures compare? To me this is an obvious question. How much does it cost a station to put out one hour of television? Maybe my description of different ways of getting on air is not the same as the descriptions used by the witnesses, but they get my point.