Dr. Roderick Flynn:

That would be true of Screen Ireland. It would be true even, to a certain extent, of funding public service media directly. Coimisiún na Meán would have drawn up the rules for the journalism support schemes, which are also known as the local democracy and court reporting schemes. They would have been sent to the European Commission, which would have looked at them, run the rule of over them and asked if it matched its internal rules relating to state aid. These are not hidden rules; they are publicly available.