Ms Katherine Licken:

Of course we would have concerns for the funding of public broadcasting more broadly and the viability of public service broadcasting more broadly. We get monthly financial accounts and monitor RTÉ's finances very carefully. We cannot get involved in day-to-day operational matters for good reason because RTÉ obviously has to remain independent, and that is set out in statute. We do get monthly financial management accounts from RTÉ. We have NewERA, which analyses and advises on those accounts for us on a monthly basis. We monitor it very closely.