Mr. Liam Boyle:

I thank the Deputy for her question. To be honest, her question is probably more for Mr. Esslemont to explain in more detail how a lack of realisation of TG4's strategy would impact on services but the question does flow into the point about multi-annual funding as well. Two of the key points that were raised in our own submission to the Future of Media Commission, around public service content, were certainty of funding and certainty of access. If you do not have certainty of funding then you are not able to realise your strategies. What we have seen over the past five-year period, with both RTÉ and TG4, is that their costed strategies, which we analysed as part of our five-year reviews, were not able to be realised, and probably in year two of their strategies, because of a lack of certainty in funding and because the funding recommendations, which were put forward by the BAI, were not realised. We end up in a scenario where the broadcasters are wedded to a strategy that they cannot realise and it becomes a very difficult process to reconcile that lack of cumulative structural funding with realising what you want to do in terms of services. As I said, it is probably for Mr. Esslemont to speak about TG4's plans and how they would affect TG4's scale in terms of services and the delivery of services.