David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I only have ten minutes, so I would like the answers to my questions to be as succinct as possible. I have a lot of questions to get through. I will start where Deputy Dooley started by saying that the members of this committee support public broadcasting. Anyone who supports public services should support public broadcasting. This committee did a very lengthy piece of work, which resulted in an all-party report supporting some of the measures called for in Ms Forbes's opening statement. Given the key recommendations of that report and the measures Ms Forbes is asking for, has the can essentially been kicked down the road for at least five years? Is that her view of the response of the Department and the Government?