Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)

I do not know what the Brennan report will state. It will certainly give us food for thought and it may require legislative changes. If, when I have the report back from Professor Brennan, I am required to make amendments to the principal Act, I hope I will have sufficient time to make them all together. That will include the issue the Deputy raised, which he has raised with me previously, around excluding certain elements of artistic funding. That has been a tradition, and it is one which, as I have said previously, I am calling a halt to.

In relation to broadband, in the next couple of days, we will reach a milestone when we pass 420,000 premises. This is a massive number of properties. In the Deputy's county, especially in the upland areas of County Wicklow, this has been a huge issue because the commercial sector was never going to do it. If the State did not it, no one was going to do it. We will be marking that. I will come back to the Deputy with specifics on when we are going to conclude the programme. At the moment, based on the trajectory, it will be well ahead of schedule. By the end of next year, it will be completed.

On the NFL, one third of all the people who attended the game in Croke Park were from the United States of America. That is anecdotal information that we have so far. I have been told the percentage travelling from abroad was the largest ever recorded for any European venue. We will do a full assessment. I will publish it. It will give us an opportunity again to come back before the committee. The NFL may or may not want to have a relationship with Ireland into the future. We will do the assessment of the moneys we spent, the quantum we spent, the value we got out of it and the value to Ireland. We will make a determination then based on data.