Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to go on and on about it, but in terms of Facebook, RTÉ has a significant critical asset in its newsroom and there are so few of those assets with content at that scale and of that quality. I pay the TV licence fee for that public service content, but it is coming out for nothing. Last night, for example, I went on Facebook. I went into the news app. Ms Forbes referred in her opening statement to being a market leader in its use of digital technology. I presume I have been driven to the news app so that RTÉ can derive further advertising revenue from me watching the content I seek and I ended up with it broken. Ms Forbes is welcome to check, but the date stamp for last night was not working. If I go through to the RTÉ website now, I see some advertising from which it can derive revenue, but there is so much available on the RTÉ 1 channel. I can see last week's "Prime Time" interview and a link to "The Week in Politics". It is not just selective content concerning elections, it is a continual stream of content. We pay for it by way of the TV licence and RTÉ is creating good content, but it is essentially being given away on Facebook for no return.