Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree. It was that particular point the director general raised that I was concerned about. The bigger picture here is around the future of public service broadcasting, which is the issue we were all looking at before the scandal arose in RTÉ and which our committee will be reporting on. The licence fee model is clearly broken. When Coimisiún na Meán's representatives came before us last week, they indicated that they would be open to the function being given to it to manage a fund with regard to public service broadcasting. As the Minister knows, it already manages the sound and vision fund, which is 7% of the licence fee, and it does that quite well. Would the Minister be open, if the recommendation came forward, to giving Coimisiún na Meán the power to manage, at arm's length, a public service broadcasting fund?