Mr. R?n?n ? Domhnaill:

The report of the Future of Media Commission recommended that we conduct research on this matter to identify what the levy might look like, methods of calculation, the period of time it should be imposed, etc.

The work on that is beginning around now and we expect to conclude it before the time set out by the Future of Media Commission, which is around this time next year. We hope to have it in the first half of next year and that this piece of research will be conducted by then. It will be quite significant and will set out what may come in from a levy and how it might look. Then it is a matter of following that and a discussion with the Minister as to whether we are asked to design a scheme to introduce such a levy at that point.