Ms Dee Forbes:

I will try to answer, but it is a topic for another day. I am happy to provide a great deal more information on this. The Senator is correct that RTÉ is obliged to entertain conversations on this with every broadcaster and we do. The Senator may have be aware that Sky News has recently come on to Saorview, which means we now have RTÉ, TG4, Virgin and Sky News. The model is a regulated tariff model. We do not set the price. It is regulated. Part of the problem here is that we are a small jurisdiction and transmission costs are expensive. The more people that come on to the service, the less it will cost every other party. That is the challenge here. We do not, nor would we ever, prevent anybody coming onto the platform. It always boils down to economics. That is the reality.

As I said, I am happy to provide further information on all of this if the committee would like me to do so.