Ms Dee Forbes:

The Radio Centre, as the Deputy mentioned, is a hugely valuable building to us. We are carrying out some upgrade works. We need more modern studios, more radio studios. In fact, they are in the process of being finalised at the moment so we will have some new studios in what we call the TV building. They will be visual radio studios so will allow both audio and video to come from the same studio, which we do not have right now.

As we go forward we have to assess, I suppose, what work that Radio Centre will need in terms of further future proofing. A lot of the infrastructure is very old hence we are upgrading the studios in a different place. The future use of it will be determined as we go forward in that face. It is a core part of RTÉ.

As the Deputy said, studio 1 is unique. It plays a very big role for the orchestra and I do not see that changing, certainly in the short term.