Mr. Trevor Keegan:

There is talk as well of RTÉ not having access to the media fund. If RTÉ was properly funded it would not need access to extra funding. I know we are short of time. There are numerous projects that we currently make, courtesy of funding from Coimisiún na Meán. I draw attention to the kind of work that gets done. It is not something that would get done in the independent sector. I refer to things like "Spoken Stories", 36 trilogy episodes on radio using professional actors, apart from some stories read by their authors.

They received 80% funding from Coimisiún na Meán. I also raise Miscellany50, a weekend festival of outside broadcast involving the arts centre in Dublin with ten hour-long concerts, 55 new short commissioned essays, five new commissions for music, as well as multiple musicians and singers. The "Davis Now Lectures" is a series of five one-hour programmes and podcasts, specially commissioned with outside broadcasters throughout the country, bringing RTÉ content to the paying public. These kinds of things will not happen if we do not have the proper funding. Initially, we would love to have full funding in terms of the Future of Media Commission recommendation, but if that is not happening, the Coimisiún na Meán funding cannot be taken away either.