Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I hope our national broadcasters are tuning in today as we speak about having that parity in coverage of sports and the arts. I was going to come to that but Senator Hoey did that in my absence. I am glad that got a bit of air time.

Mr. Hickey spoke about the content levy and that we could have the likes of "Smother", "North Sea Connection" or any of those dramas for 52 weeks of the year. People love it; our audiences love it. If the content levy delivers that for 52 weeks of the year, we will be achieving great things and creating huge employment for everyone in all of the creative industries. We should certainly be gearing ourselves up for that.

I do not think there are any other questions. I certainly do not have any, because your presentations have all been so comprehensive. I want to thank you all for being with us today. It is very much appreciated. I would like to thank my colleagues who tuned in and out both in person and online.

Again I thank you all most sincerely for being with us. We very much appreciate it. All of your presentations, comments and observations will be noted by the clerk and will be part of the report we compile.

We are now going into private session to attend to housekeeping.