Mr. Mark Griffin:

No, these are commercial decisions. We have an oversight agreement that looks at the performance of RTÉ in the round. If the Department started to stray into the decision-making process on those particular issues, we could find ourselves straying into other areas and issues that are rightly within the purview of a commercial semi-State body. RTÉ is a commercial semi-State organisation and it has to make calls. I acknowledge that it is funded through television licence receipts but there are mechanisms in place for monitoring, overseeing and governing that.