Ms Dee Forbes:

All of these changes are part of several things that would need to happen to stabilise RTÉ's finances. Picking out one or the other, while there are numbers attached to some, they are not as clean as the question would suggest. We must ensure that we can deliver services to the public more efficiently than we are doing. That is what is tied up in all of this. There is a complex set of circumstances at play here. The proposed move of Lyric FM is part of that. It is worth bearing in mind that we have excess capacity in Cork and Dublin. Part of the thinking was to ensure that excess capacity could be utilised while preserving the service to the public and, at the same time, reducing costs overall. That is the context of the Limerick discussion and why Lyric is one of those proposals. We have just been hearing-----