Mr. Bob Hughes:

As I said in my opening statement, we have seen that the first round of the local democracy and courts reporting scheme was heavily over subscribed. That was the first of six schemes that will flow from the Future of Media Commission’s recommendations to the Department and then Coimisiún na Meán. We are concerned that 7% of the licence fee will not be enough and particularly when there will be more players involved. We are very grateful we are being funded. We have had an opportunity for funding for the first time in the history of the State. Obviously Sound and Vision has existed for quite a long time for broadcasters and we have never had anything equal to that and now we have so that is an opportunity. However, we have suffered massively from the tech giants taking the advertising, as all legacy media have. A levy would be another option for the Government. I know politically it might be challenging.