Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I have quite a few relatives in the UK, all of whom managed to get Tara when it was on the go. They all still manage to get RTE radio broadcasts. My aunt in Leamington Spa rang me just before Christmas to thank me for the Bill, about which she had just heard. They are not having too much difficulty at the moment. The Bill will give it a legislative basis and ensure money can be legally spent on such items. Before this we had no legislative basis for using licence fee money in this way. The Bill entrusts RTE with considering the most appropriate technological and financial means to address the issue and I am sure it will be able to do so. Even as matters stand, RTE tries to reach out with its radio broadcasting through the use of long wave, Internet and satellite. It has been active in the area and now that it is entitled to spend licence fee money on it, it will consider the technological means and begin as quickly as possible. I do not want to stipulate how as I would not know technically anyway. I would not want to restrict it in how it might do that.