Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is great that the practitioners are here to help us work our way through the challenges they have. Some of those challenges have been well outlined and I will not go back over them.

The point regarding the allocation of 7% of television licence fee funding is well made, but I wonder whether anybody has a magic figure for what is needed. We will have to argue the case with the Minister that the allocation should be proportionate. Should it be 10%, say, or 20%? All the witnesses will say 10% is at least better than 7% but has anybody looked at what type of increase would help to sustain the different media represented here today?