Mr. Declan McLoughlin:

Ms Craig spoke about the changes in our licensing process. That is a way of encouraging broadcasters to set out proactively how they are going to address the issue of sustainability, including environmental sustainability. That is one measure we are taking. The other thing we did was with the climate action course we recently concluded. I cannot remember the exact details but a focus of one element of the course was that there are lots of interesting ways, other than through news and current affairs, to explore the topic of sustainability in people's lives. To the best of my recollection - perhaps Ms Comey can confirm this - but I think the climate round included many such programmes. The BAI sound and vision scheme does not fund news and current affairs, so the €5 million of funding is going to programming that is not news and current affairs. The issue of funding is certainly an important one. Those are my observations.