Mr. Donnacha McKeon:

We own the equipment because it is a asset for the Houses of the Oireachtas. However, this is very specialised equipment. We would not expect civil servants who are coming up the normal pathway of the Civil Service to be able to operate this equipment or, in a larger sense, to be able to look at the wider broadcasting industry, at the trends there and the technologies coming up, and to plan and help us to plan how we will map our way through what is now an increasingly digital and software-based environment, from where it was.