Mr. Michael O'Keeffe:

I am back in the call and I will take some of the Deputy's questions. I will ask my colleague Ms Craig to deal with the question on head 53.

On resources, yes absolutely. We addressed this earlier. It is important and essential that there will be sufficient resources in the new media commission. We have engaged with the Department. We held preliminary discussions with the Department, which is making a business case to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We will work with the Department over the next months on that particular issue. The Deputy is right with regard to Fórsa, which has also been in touch with us. We have engaged with Fórsa and will continue to engage. As I said earlier, the BAI is just 40 people and there is no question that there will be a greater number of people required for the media commission. It is absolutely a priority and something on which we will work very closely.

On the new levy, we are working with our colleagues in the European regulators group on preparing the type of levy scheme that is envisaged under heads 76 and 77. Obviously, it is a new area. We are part of that working group and it is envisaged the new media commission will set the scheme. It is a different scheme but similar in concept to the broadcasting funding scheme, which we established in 2005. The principles are the same but the media commission will need to decide on certain aspects such as the percentage of the levy, what is involved, who is liable to pay the levy and who is eligible, and how the funding will be allocated with regard to types of programming and content. There is a range of questions we will need to address in preparing the new scheme. I will now ask Ms Craig to deal with the question on head 53.