Ms Dee Forbes:

The issue of rights is hugely complex because the rights are the domain of either the federations in the sport world or the big studios in the entertainment world. Let us take sport first of all. It is the sporting bodies that dictate the break-up. Quite often sports discussions are held for the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland discussion is had as part of the UK negotiation. That is the way the bodies work. It is nothing to do with the broadcasters. Some bodies are obviously different but that is the way they carve it up. We often get questions from our viewers as well but it is not something we decide. It is decided by the federations.