Mr. Rory Coveney:

We continue to take people at face value that they are actually looking at that because we do not have any choice. We are being told by the Department, the Minister and the Government in general that they are looking at coming up with a set of reforms that will improve the collection system. The technical group is being led by our Department and is multidepartmental so that Justice and Finance etc. are represented at official level. We have fed in our thoughts on the options in detail. We talk to them far too frequently about moving on this. Unfortunately, it is the usually the first and last item of our discussions with the Department and we speak to them all the time. The single biggest strategic question facing RTÉ in terms of its future is some sort of resolution to this question. It is not for want of trying or asking but ultimately we cannot fix the TV licence system. We have lots of ideas about how to fix it but ultimately it has to be actioned by the Minister and the Government.