Ms Niamh O'Connor:

We have worked with many Northern-based independent production companies. Some of them do some of our biggest factual journalistic series. We also do a great deal of work with the ILBF funds. We have co-productions with BBC Northern Ireland. Producers like these are key partners in all genres but tend to be more in the areas of popular and factual programmes. We are also looking at undertaking co-productions in drama. We do quite a lot of Irish-language programmes in this context as well.