Ms Niamh O'Connor:

It has not. We have been quite siloed. To Mr. Lynch's point, we will be making - they are saying 2,000 hours - nearer 3,000 hours of television within RTÉ. There will be major opportunities for people who work on the editorial side across the organisation.

In terms of live programmes such as "The Late Late Show" and "Dancing with the Stars", editorial experience would probably be lacking within the independent sector. We would see some of our teams in RTÉ working in a hybrid model with the independent sector, because they have the skill set that may not be there yet. It would take time for them to work with the staff of the production companies involved to bring their skill set along.

The people who work in the studios are fully aware that those studios are not really fit for the type of programming we need to do in order to meet the audience needs. This comes down to the idea of being able to go into bespoke studios that are built to meet our needs as opposed to what we are trying to do now, which is put programmes into studios that are really too small for the type of programmes we want to shoot.