Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To be fair, RTE's output of young people's programming was the vehicle that propelled many of today's stars into stardom. I hope it will continues to allow such creativity to flourish. I do not share Senator Terry Leyden's view that it will be outsourced to America, England and so on. There is a considerable amount of talent and number of creative people in Ireland who could produce such programming and I hope RTE will pursue that approach, but the issue should have been addressed at the committee.