Mr. Noel Quinn:

From a GAA+ point of view, live sport is live sport. While the appointment of view will always attract a big number for the live matches, we know from research and general trends that people are craving more midweek programming between Monday to Friday. We are trying to address that at the minute with additional analysis shows and evergreen Gaelic games talk shows during the week. The more Gaelic games storytelling per week, the better it will be for the association, for the membership and for the 700,000 people who want to access more stories about the LGFA, camogie and Gaelic games.

With regard to the benefit of additional funding for independent companies, as recently as last night, anyone who watched “Hell For Leather - The Story of Gaelic Football” will probably acknowledge the benefit of funding independent production companies, like Crossing the Line Productions, and allowing them to tell brilliant stories about the history of Gaelic football.

I mentioned Nemeton in the opening statement. There have been other such documentaries over the years such as “Blues Sisters” by Loosehorse, as well as “A Year ‘Til Sunday” and “Marooned”. All those separate independent production companies produced brilliant documentaries. More of the same would be fantastic. The Bill may help to unlock that.