Mr. Michael O'Keeffe:

I will address the last one anyway, if the Chairman wishes, and will make some observations on the others.

As Deputy Stanley knows, within the broadcast media there are requirements of fairness, impartiality and objectivity and we police that. A compliance committee examines and monitors that. The same does not apply to the print media. The print media does not have those same obligations, so it does not have to comply with them. Were there evidence of non-compliance, we would take action. We have commissioned some research on the last general election from a man mentioned earlier, Kevin Rafter, who is doing that piece of work for us at the moment and we should have a report on that. It will look at the broadcast media because, obviously, the BAI is particularly concerned about the broadcast media. We probably will have some information on that early in the new year. I think Mr. Rafter is doing some analysis work at the moment on that, which we can make available to Deputy Stanley when we have it.

To address an earlier question, the Chairman mentioned the commercial sector and the challenges it faces and whether it should get the licence fee. We recognise that it has public service obligations. The licence fee has not increased, as the Chairman knows, for some time, so we question whether cutting another piece of the licence fee to give to the commercial sector would be the best way to go. There are other funding mechanisms and we have made the need to address some of those one of our objectives. There are mechanisms, whether around advertising rules and regulations or other areas. We support the commercial sector in many ways through the Sound and Vision funding scheme. We will look at other mechanisms as to how that might be done and will make recommendations. Over the course of the next 12 months we envisage giving a good bit of time over to that.

I am sure there is information on the amount of online advertising revenue and I imagine we could get some figures in that regard. I do not have any to hand. Ms Cronin might have some more information about the figures.