Mr. Ronan McManamy:

There is the question of why funding is important but how the funding is designed is probably more important. Sound and Vision was designed to give us money to support public service broadcasting but it does not. It is important that the new schemes that are coming are designed in a fashion we can avail of. As I said earlier, there is no point in us ending up with funding to do one-off documentaries around our schedule when our current affairs show is being wound down, or our new service does not have the credibility it previously had, which means we cannot attract staff and so on. A huge amount of funding has to be directed to securing what traditional media in the country has already achieved because what is happening at the moment is that it is winding down, particularly with the tech giants coming in and taking over half of the cake. Even with money that is committed, if there is a will to sit down with the media owners to help to design a scheme that works, I think we can make better use of money that is committed.