Mr. Declan Gibbons:

We very much welcome the waiving of the levy for the community sector. That is something we sought for a long time. There are two aspects to this. There is the financial cost of the levy, but also the process was extremely unwieldy and placed quite a burden on stations with very limited resources. Apart from a financial burden it was an administrative burden. We very much welcome that development.

Throughout Covid-19 there was only one campaign run by Government Departments, which was a Covid-19 information campaign, in which community stations were included. As far as sustainability is concerned, we would like to be included in the very many Government information campaigns and State information campaigns. If our stations had access to those, and if they were automatically included in those, it would have a huge impact on incomes and sustainability.