Mr. Kevin Bakhurst:

Categorically not. It was done on two bases. One is that we were in a position where we were already worried about cashflow, so we were looking at stopping discretionary spending. We did this in conjunction with talking to the Department and An Post, I should add. The main motivator was that we did not think it was appropriate to spend licence payers' money on chasing them to pay licence fees when the scandal was unfolding. We thought it would be tone deaf at the time.