Mr. Rory Coveney:

Just on the issue of political ads, which is an important one, we are not advocating that RTÉ or indeed other broadcasters - I will speak on behalf of RTÉ - should carry political advertising, but I think there is a somewhat strange asymmetry in a world where RTÉ and TG4 services coexist on devices with online services in respect of which there is no such prohibition. Ultimately, the purpose of keeping political ads out of broadcasting was to allow the airwaves to be free of that type of communication or negative campaigning and to allow discussion to happen freely on its merits. It also had been-----