Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I acknowledge what Senator O'Toole said in this regard. It is certainly a novel idea blanking out some of the programmes as one transmits freely across Europe. It is encrypted on satellite because if it was in the clear, there would be the major copyright issues I mentioned earlier. I will raise the Senator's point about whether home produced news and current affairs programmes could be free-to-air across Europe to see if it is a possibility. Part of the reason the BBC can do what it does is that it owns the rights on Freesat.