Mr. Jon Williams:

There I was thinking "Prime Time" was the Deputy's favourite programme. Let me deal with the thematic issue. The challenge for us, truthfully, is how we make the whole bigger than the sum of the parts. We have evidenced quite a lot of what we are doing. The challenge for us is to bring it all together. The director general talked about how we aim to do one of our "The Big Picture" weeks on this issue later this year. We began last year by addressing the issue of homelessness. Last spring we looked at mental health; just before Christmas we looked at the place of women in Ireland in 2018. The success of "The Big Picture" has been to reach out beyond the core news and current affairs programmes. For example, it has engaged 2FM on mental health. It engages with RTÉ drama and the orchestras. What we mean by the thematic issue is how we actually harness the resources of RTÉ together to make the whole bigger than the sum of the parts.

There has been reference to children. We are incredibly proud of "News2Day", our children's news programme. That programme has also done a lot in the realm of climate change. I would be happy to take on board the protest on Saturday which has been mentioned. I will talk to my colleagues in the newsroom about it for this weekend.