Ms Dee Forbes:

As regards Facebook or Twitter, one would not be able to get everything on those platforms. One would be able to get select broadcasts. Typically, what one would see most of all on Facebook or Twitter would be news. If there is a broadcast from the Taoiseach or something happens election-wise, we will put our broadcast out. Again, there is no funding from any of those platforms for RTÉ. The Deputy is probably aware of the groundbreaking changes that happened recently in Australia. Google was the first to receive payment for its news services from News Corporation in that territory. What we are seeing is possibly a shift coming from the online providers and we will begin conversations shortly on that, but that was the first time for an online provider to be paid by a news outlet for its content. That is a global deal, which will apply to News Corporation's content everywhere in the world.