Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I liked Ms Ní Raghallaigh's description of RTÉ as the national storyteller. Our question is that RTÉ is going to have to address the funding model. The independent production sector has been a major part of being that national storyteller. One of the questions we have considered in the committee is whether the model RTÉ should move towards is more of a publisher-broadcaster model that, as a leaner model, will allow it to compete in the digital space. The question is also whether Ms Ní Raghallaigh, as chair of the authority, considers that it is an appropriate model to consider, and also her vision for the independent production sector going forward within RTÉ.