Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There are two issues here, namely, the interim funding and the future funding model. For the latter, the longer package, we will have to await the recommendations of the two independent expert groups I have set up, and I think that is the way it should be in case they identify something not in the strategic vision, for example, that we have all missed because they are undertaking such a forensic interrogation. On the interim funding, as I said, we will look to the Future of Media Commission recommendation in what I am looking for in the budget. The Deputy knows what its ask was. NewERA has recommended a sum and that will be contingent on the strategic vision, but in the case of the longer term funding package, we will await the outcomes of the independent investigations.