Whatever the future holds, however, it is important that where there are genuine local community-based radio stations providing a good service, there is a way of ensuring that the big money is not capable of ousting them. We must ensure that the whizz-kids – I do not speak in a derogatory sense – do not hijack these services, because the service that is there when they take it over is not necessarily the one that will be there when they are finished. As someone who has supported and been directly involved in local radio right back to the RTE days, I would like to think that we will not dim the vision we had or lose the opportunities we have now.