Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I offer a warm welcome to the Minister and her officials. To start on that issue of the recommended figure by NewERA in terms of what is required, the Minister said that that figure is then contingent on what is going to be outlined in the strategic vision by RTÉ and Kevin Bakhurst. The director general said to me, when he was here a couple of weeks ago, that he would have the outline of the strategic vision published before budget day. We are six days away from the budget and I am wondering about the alignment of where we stand in terms of them coming with their hand out, looking for money, and waiting maybe until the last hour of the night before the budget, and saying “This is the framework for our strategic vision. Now deliver tomorrow.” Has there been that kind of back and forth between RTÉ and the Department to line that up for budget day?