Mr. R?n?n ? Domhnaill:

I could always do with more but it is sufficient to fulfil our plans for this year. A new community radio round is under way for €2.5 million, which will help fund programming on local radio. The long-term question to be looked at eventually concerns the transformation from a sound and vision scheme to an overarching media scheme that incorporates much more than it covers at present so it would incorporate policies for sports broadcasting, North-South co-operation, gender equality, news and current affairs and print media so that this all comes under the media fund. That is where it is going in the long term. There will be a drop in collection this year but over the past few years, the Minister and the Department have supplemented the scheme over the past few years to enable us to fund various other projects such as climate change projects and Irish language rounds.