Ms Stephanie Comey:

I might come in on that as well in that the BAI has a dual role. We are regulating the sector, we set codes and rules but we also support the development of the sector in what I hope are quite meaningful ways. Mr. McLoughlin spoke about the Broadcasting Sustainability Network but we have a sectoral learning and development programme for the past 20 or 30 years also, where we have networked organisations which come to us and we allocate funding for learning and development initiatives which these organisations deliver to their constituents.

We have definitely seen in the past number of years increased focus and appetite for climate and how broadcasters, as small organisations, large networks, freelancers or a group of community stations, engaged with those topics to make them relevant.

Between the Broadcasting Sustainability Network and being able to engage it in those areas, the funding we provide for programme content and also behind the scenes for organisational development content, we are finding there is quite a good amount of training programmes being delivered. The one Mr. McLoughlin talked about is one such, and we have a journalism graduate programme also which was launched this year, where we train young journalists in climate reporting.

This is only a small sample but every little bit counts. We have talked about a community media TV festival which happened earlier this year which had a climate change module.

To link this answer back to the Senator's second question on what is happening elsewhere, we have also funded Creative Europe Dublin to deliver a green film making webinar where it will showcase European best practice and how we can develop our own practice and take examples from good practices elsewhere. This audience will comprise a great number of producers. Those programmes combined deliver quite a good deal of small but added value.