Mr. Declan Gibbons:

Most community stations do not have a full-time journalist, and those that engage in providing structured news bulletins have somebody who is doing many other jobs as well. Something along the line of the bursary scheme I mentioned would help to improve resources. To go back to Senator Byrne's point, we have what is called a community radio news desk, which is where the resources of stations are pooled and sent to one station, and it is filtered out there. However, again, it is all about resources. If we had a little bit more, we could have more of that and improve the quality of what is available. I agree with the point Mr. Purcell made as well. That it is grand when it is about a topic that is of quite a general nature, but if something is very locally done in a community station, it does not always transfer.