Ms Katherine Licken:

I might start to respond to that. As the Department with responsibility for the Gaeltacht and the Irish language, we are always concerned about funding for the Irish language and actions to promote it. We increased the funding to TG4 last year and this year. We understand that RTÉ is conducting a comparative review of the remuneration of Irish-speaking workers. It has run a public tender to engage an expert partner with specific experience in the media sector to carry out a full evaluation of all staff roles and grades in RTÉ. Irish-language roles will be part of the review, which will commence on completion of the tender process. It is important.

On the question of the oversight of RTÉ, we have the BAI, ourselves and NewERA. There is extensive oversight of RTÉ. Issues will obviously always arise from time to time with any entity and it is important that issues are addressed promptly.