Dr. Roderick Flynn:

I just have one other point to make. What I really liked about the Future of Media Commission report was that front and centre in that report - in its very basis - it states that news and current affairs are the bedrock of democracy in Ireland. This is not just in the abstract, but specifically in Ireland. I cannot remember seeing that in an Irish report in quite such blanket terms. It builds from that and says that the funding model that has supported that for approximately 200 years is maybe not entirely broken but is certainly challenged. Those are the two issues. It acknowledges that this is really important and the way we have financially supported this until now is not sustainable and that we should work on that basis. That is great. Philosophically, I like where we are at. It is maybe just a matter of how we figure out how we can apply that.