Mr. Adrian Lynch:

I have two points. Part of them relate to Mr. Esslemont's point that it is not just about fixing RTÉ but also more about how we will have a sustainable public funding mechanism that will support public service media in this country. What was interesting about the Future of Media Commission is that it was the most detailed and independent review of public service media that has ever been done. It found that public service media in this country are a merit good in that they serve a common good, minority audiences and broad audiences.

On Mr. Farrell's point around transparency, RTÉ is regulated, so it reports to the regulator and publishes its accounts annually. The accounts are published on RTÉ's website and they are broken down, so a person can go into interactive graphics and see exactly the licence fee attribution. It is all broken down for anyone to see and is very user-friendly for the public.