Mr. Sunil Sharpe:

I will come in on online events. They have been a success, but the next question is how we make improvements to the venues. It does seem the venues where many of these live streams take place are under a lot of pressure and need long-term infrastructural support. One of the more positive recent supports announced was the €5 million for live-streaming set-ups within all these venues. That is very positive. More grants coming down the line, such as soundproofing grants, will also be very useful for venues.

Some people argue that a lot of work goes in to putting a live stream together and they are not always sure the feedback they get has worked all the time. Maybe that money could be just given to them. However, the online events have been useful and it is great to have had State support for them. Let us see how long they will last. I would say that, overall, they have been successful, but some people say they could be getting on with other projects if they had that money in their back pockets and did not have to do an online event.