Mr. S?amus Dooley:

I am firmly wedded to the concept of public service broadcasting. One way of looking at the alternative is to say that RTÉ should do what is perceived to be important public interest. i.e. the boring bits, and that the commercial sharks, owned by investment companies and all the rest, do the profitable bits. I believe there is a danger there. The remit of RTÉ goes way beyond the news and current affairs. There is language, culture, drama, the orchestras and archives. That work is really important. Funding RTÉ to ensure that all of that survives is really important. If we dismantle public service broadcasting, we will not miss it until it is not there.