Ms Dee Forbes:

I thank the Deputy for the questions. On the first point around sustainability, when we published our 2019 revised strategy we outlined three areas that needed to come together to prove that RTÉ could be sustainable for the future. The three areas were: commercial income, which needed to be increased and diversified; costs, which needed to reduce to the tune of €60 million over that three-year period; and licence fee revenues, which needed to come to the level that the BAI recommended a number of years ago. In terms of the two areas under our control, on which I will ask Mr. Collins to elaborate further in a moment, we are increasing our commercial income and we are in a programme of cost containment. What has not happened through any of this process is any change to the licence fee funding. As we pointed out in our submission, the system is losing €65 million that should be coming in. I will ask Mr. Collins to elaborate on that.