Mr. Stephen Ryan:

The point - our colleagues in RTÉ probably have more detail on and understanding of it - was simply that RTÉ is in the midst of a very significant digitisation and preservation project.

We believe this is key because there is always the risk that if they do not do it now, we might not be able to. I understand that RTÉ has some very old celluloid tape that obviously will degrade. The point I was making was that if RTÉ was to divert resources - and obviously, prioritisation of resources is a matter for the director general - into providing access in response to individual content requests, that could divert resources from digitisation. As Ms Dooley has outlined, there is quite a lot of work in that. It will be three years before the audiovisual content digitisation project ends. There is a potential risk that we have not quantified. It is a broad risk that were you to divert limited resources, something would have to give.