Mr. Richard Waghorn:

In technological terms, we have the RTÉ Player, the website and the radio stations. All of our content is available globally where we have the rights. Where we do not have the rights, the content is not accessible. We would need to secure the rights, if we were able to afford to do so, for some of that content. All of our in-house content does have the rights cleared. The experience with the RTÉ Player in the UK is different from the experience with it in the Republic. This is something we would need to explore.

With regard to the experience on the RTÉ Player, we need to invest more in the functionality and capabilities. Deputy Cannon made a point on personalisation with regard to providing a better and more personalised experience for audiences and users. There is a lot more functionality and more features we want to add to the RTÉ Player. We continue to develop it. Recently, we got dynamic advertisement insertion running on our linear channels. We are looking at other features with regard to downloads and other linear streams we can provide through the RTÉ Player.

We have also been upgrading the mobile apps. We have been upgrading the apps for the connected TV platform. We are also constantly evolving the web app for the RTÉ Player. We are looking to create a new audio app. Recently we received internal approval for this and we are going to procurement. There will be a new audio app to replace the mobile app we have at present. There will also be a new website for our radio services. We are also upgrading the news app. The news app has worked very well for us. It has been very reliable over the past nine years since we went to market in 2014 or 2015. Next year, we will replace the news app with a much more modern app. We hope it will continue to do well for us. Where we can make our products available internationally, we do so. However, rights issues mean that some content is held back from being made available.