Mr. Steve Carson:

The first thing to say is we welcome the three-year public funding settlement, which has enabled us to plan our transformation and give more clarity to our independent producers about our future plans. As a result of that three-year funding settlement, we are already entering into multi-annual deals on some titles and multiseries commissions. RTÉ's position is we are fully committed to the 25% of funding being spent in the independent sector and would regard-----