Ms ?ine N? Chaoindealbh?in:

There is no doubt that in recent years we have seen a sea change and have had to diversify where we invest to try to grab the audience. Mr. Farrell referred to the additional 33 channels that have come in the past ten years.

Each one of those channels that joins us is a threat to our revenue expectation and, therefore, we have to adjust to fit our budgets. We do an awful lot of public service broadcasting per hour out of our studios, from “Ireland AM” first thing in the morning right through to “The Tonight Show”, with the news and "The Six O'Clock Show" in between.

We rely on funding and are grateful for the funding we get from Sound and Vision and section 481. Key to our continued success at the moment is the investment and collaboration we do with international partners as well. We rely on that and would continue to rely on funding for content creation. Naturally, if there was more available to us as a public service media, we would welcome it.