Mr. Alan Esslemont:

On the 25%, at present that is the practice under the sound and vision scheme. I have seen lower percentages in drafts. I would be very worried we would end up with a worse position than pertains at present. As I said previously, the way forward is not to see the Irish language as a genre or a tiny subset. The Irish language, as a minority language in Ireland but also as the first official language, needs to be recognised as a language. This means the Future of Media Commission has to have an ethos that is strong towards the Irish language. We have suggested in our text that rather than putting the Irish language as a genre in the text of legislation, higher up there should be reference to programming in the English and Irish languages. We think that is the way forward.