Ms Celene Craig:

With some agreement with our Department, we would have started this work a little bit earlier but one of the key pieces that is required for that is a strategy statement from each of the two public service broadcasters. The basis for our work usually looks at what the organisational strategy is for each of the public service broadcasters for the next five years. We look for costed strategies and taking a view on that, we make recommendations to the Minister regarding funding and we use that each year to monitor progress against the strategy. There has been some delays. There were to be some delays in any event from RTÉ because of the change at the level of the director general. Obviously, recent events seem to have created some further delays in finalising that strategy. That strategy will be critical and it obviously needs to reflect the more recent concerns and what RTÉ's strategy is for dealing with that. We are hoping to commence the five-year review of public funding in quarter 4 of this year. We may have to shift a little bit on that timeline, depending on whether RTÉ has its new strategy in place or not.