Mr. Noel Curran:

UTV's chief executive has said that TV3 has worked in the past against RTE and that he wanted to work with RTE. I welcome hearing what exactly that entails. I have huge respect for UTV. It is very good at making money. It is coming into a crowded market and still it thinks it will make money, so the commercial pie is shrinking. The digital operators are increasing. Sky is launching more opt outs and now we have UTV coming in, and there is only so much of that commercial income to go around, so I have a concern on that front.

The €5 million reduction relates to a couple of other questions around profitability for this year. We budgeted to break even this year. That was based on introducing a range of different costs. I heard about the €5 million when it was announced. That had not been signalled and I understand Cabinet confidentiality and confidentiality about the budget. There also seems to be some confusion, or perhaps not confusion-----