Ms Áine Ní Chaoindealbháin:

As Mr. Kiely mentioned, Virgin Media came in and brought TV3 from a difficult situation. There had been no capital expenditure for quite a period of time before that. The strategy we took was how could we best develop TV3, how could we future-proof TV3 and given that it is such a multi-skilled environment, how could we develop and expand on that by bringing in new talent through graduates by upskilling our staff. As a result, we have an entirely new production infrastructure. We have a new studio in which we have the largest ultra high definition screen in Europe. It has the highest resolution possible. With all our capital expenditure it is not about the here and now, it is about how it will last us for the next couple of years.

We have also changed our newsroom infrastructure quite significantly. Now a journalist has much more capability to shoot for themselves, to produce content for social media, to edit and turn around a package for delivery on air or our social media outlets.

On top of that, we are continuing to develop Studio 2, which is in our second building, Unit 7, to ensure that we future-proof any infrastructural spend that we make.