Mr. Adrian Lynch:

On our digital products, in the week of 19 October, between RTÉ.ieand RTÉ News, we had 77 million page loads, which is significant.

Twenty per cent of that is coming from outside Ireland, so it has been a key portal in terms of connection in a world where people cannot travel, access their own culture, connect with family and so on. At a very human level it was allowing people who were abroad to connect with what was happening in our country.

On the question of culture and exporting that, in 2018 we streamed the Wexford Opera Festival on RTÉ.ie. Through those learnings and when Covid-19 arrived we were able to apply that to many of our arts partnerships. We are currently doing Culture Night. We did Solar Boneswith the Rough Magic Theatre Company. We are doing the International Book Festival, the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Wexford Opera Festival. We are doing 12 Friday nights with the National Symphony Orchestra. It is interesting to note that, typically, its audience on a Friday night would have been 600 people. That is now being watched by 3,000 people. We are also repeating it on linear in terms of RTÉ 1 on Sunday mornings where another 15,000 people are coming in. Streaming plus our story offers a massive opportunity for the country and it is a great way of connecting with our diaspora and bringing Irish people together.