Tim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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I thank TV3 for its presentation. I am sorry I missed a part of it. I had to step out for a moment.

I ask of TV3's commitment to the so-called "regions". There is a view that it is a Dublin-based organisation and has Dublin-based content. That would be fair enough to a degree when one sees the studios and everything else that is based in Dublin. In coverage of the regions, in particular, Cork, or even Munster, does TV3 find it hard to compete? Is the TV3 platform, to have one main reporter based in the south, becoming an issue in getting the spread required to increase viewership? There is the view that if one were to watch TV3 current affairs, it would be a Dublin-centric view rather than the broader view of the regions. The witnesses might answer that if they could.