Ms Stephanie Comey:

I want to link the two points Deputies Mythen and Munster made around multi-annual funding and the sustainability of the community media sector. We have talked extensively about the possibility of multi-annual funding from a sectoral learning and development perspective for the Community Television Association in terms of building strategies and action plans that can be implemented over several years. The BAI will not be able to do this because the lights are about to be turned off but when Coimisiún na Meán comes into play these are conversations we hope to take up at that stage.