Mr. Neil Murray:

The literary department has not been dismantled. We have a new work department, with a full-time dramaturg, Louise Stephens, who was appointed at the end of 2018. She was at the Royal Court Theatre in London and trained at Trinity College in Dublin. There is a literary department in full action.

To pick up on the point Mr. Conlon made on new plays at the Abbey, in 2019 there will be two new plays by new Irish writers on the Abbey stage. There is a literary department that is functioning. Dylan Coburn Gray's "Citysong" and Lisa Tierney-Keogh's "The Beautiful Village" are new plays. They are not film or book adaptations or musicals. We are commissioning and developing new plays. In addition to Ms Stephens, we have for associate playwrights from Ireland. If anything, there is an increased function in our literary department. I hope people will start to see the results of this coming through. They are coming through already with three new plays. I did not include Dermot Bolger's new play because he is more of a veteran. The other two will be Abbey debutantes on the main stage of the Abbey. There is new work coming through, of which we are really proud, and we are really excited to put it forward.

The Deputy also asked how many self-produced shows-----