Ms Bríd Dooley:

Of what we hold so far, the figure I have in my head is approximately 0.05% of our tapes which would have been baked and then digitised. We have set them aside to go back and try again. It is a very small percentage. We have done a lot of conservation work before material has gone out, particularly quarter-inch tape, which can become mouldy if it is badly stored and has been there a long time unused. We have done a lot of that work in advance and we have seen very good results. Some of our material is more vulnerable than others. We tackled some of that material early on thanks to the archive funding scheme, which was launched after the last broadcast Act was brought into being. This was a huge game-changer for us because it was a great learning curve. Digitisation and audiovisual archiving are still quite modern and new. We all expect it to be there but there is a lot of development in it all the time. We check on a regular basis to make sure if there is any new technology coming along that could help us recover material we might not have been able to recover previously or is available to us.