Mr. Jim Jennings:

I presume all advertisers advertise with RTE radio for all our services in the knowledge that they are broadcast in the UK. That is how we sell our advertising. We sell it in packages across different stations, including 2FM, our digital radio stations and Radio 1.

People love to talk about salaries. The director general has appeared before the committee to talk about the salaries of our presenters and has engaged with the Deputy on it. He knows I will not repeat the figures in terms of the cuts and so on. Regarding his comment that nobody else pays these salaries, it is clear that of the top ten best paid radio presenters in Ireland, six work in the independent sector----