Ms Breda O'Keeffe:

It has improved our financial transparency. In terms of cost per hour for programmes, it benchmarked us against other European broadcasters. It did an extensive exercise in some of the other European broadcasters and stated it read positively for RTÉ, with RTÉ's cost per hour at the low end of the range versus TV-only European broadcasters and at the mid-range of TV and radio broadcasters. NewERA judged us to be very efficient, and we should not be surprised to hear that, in that our cost base had reduced by almost one quarter.