Ms Dee Forbes:

I will address the last question first. The Deputy asked if we are seeing an increase in demand from viewers and listeners. It is fair to say that when a topic becomes more interesting and is more discussed, we see an increased need and appetite for more in that area. This particular area right now is in that place. We aired a programme on Monday night, for example, which was "One Day: How Ireland Cleans Up". It looked at how we are tackling waste in the State. That programme on Monday evening had more than one third of the country watching it. This tells us very quickly and easily that there is demand. A number of years ago that same programme would not have had that sense of engagement. Likewise across our radio shows, if one looks at the breadth of radio on a given week across RTÉ, one will see peppered across the schedule a lot of engagement from listeners on this topic. It is very fair to say that we are getting much more engagement, and as a result we will then aim to cover more and more. Following that Monday show, Claire Byrne had a segment on how we could reduce our waste. There is no doubt that it is a topic of our time and therefore we are addressing the topic in our news and current affairs programming and in other programming. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Jon Williams, in current affairs to address how we are treating the topic in news and current affairs. Mr. Jim Jennings, our director of content, will then outline how we cover the topic in our other content. It is the breadth of content across RTÉ that will reflect all of that.