Mr. Colm O'Callaghan:

Yes and no. A pull and drag has existed between the commercial and editorial arm for as long as RTÉ television has been on air and that was New Year's Eve in 1961. There will always be tension between programme makers and journalists. In an ideal world, we might all have our opinions on how public media is funded and RTÉ is funded in a particular way. Were it not for the revenues brought in by Mr. Dean's and Mr. Mullen's team, we may not be in a position to make a lot of the output that the committee this morning has been so complimentary of this morning. It is a compromise that is sometimes uneasy. On whether I feel the content is compromised in any way by some of the advertising, we do as much as we can to keep it nice and passive. The content speaks for itself.