Ms Patricia Cronin:

The discussions around the commission were in the context of the serious financial situation that was brought to Government in respect of RTÉ. As part of that discussion we dealt with other Government Departments about doing something broader in terms of a review of public sector broadcasting. In our statement of strategy we always intended to do a review of public sector broadcasting. It is in our published strategy. Effectively, what we have done is bring forward what we were going to do anyway.