Ms Moya Doherty:

I will take this question from a slightly different perspective. This is important because RTÉ has in the past been accused of always going with the begging bowl. I was trying to think of a different analogy. I thought that if you give people a fish, they will be fed for a day but if you give them a fishing rod, they will be able to fend for themselves. RTÉ has faced a decade of brutal cuts and the only way any organisation can grow and improve is through investment, not continual cuts. It is difficult for me, although Ms Forbes may have a different view, to talk about specific key issues where RTÉ is not delivering, for example, the RTÉ player, not achieving the Irish language target twice and being unable to spend the statutory money provided for independent productions in one year but making it up in the next year. Those are all about resources and certainty of funding.