Mr. Anthony Muldoon:

This is not necessarily on the commissioning point but the bottom line is that an unstable RTÉ that is going from one crisis to another impacts across the board. Organisations that cannot be sure of their budgets year on year find it hard to make creative decisions. Since last June, we have been consistently saying that, one, direct Exchequer funding is the only reasonable solution for RTÉ and two, it has to be multiannual to allow RTÉ to grow as an organisation.