It was announced yesterday that, as part of the budget process, that the Government has committed an additional €9 million to RTÉ. That money largely comes funding restored to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. That is it, however. We are in a situation where the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, has said that it would be in real trouble if it did not get €30 million and TG4 has a similar problem. Is what was announced yesterday the sum total of what this Government intends to do to help Irish media? Our Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment recommended a suite of different measures that could provide further funding. In a world where all the big international media are becoming increasingly wealthy and dominant in Ireland and Irish media are in crisis, is that all we can expect from this Government to help Irish broadcast media?

I want to be careful about what I say in respect of RTÉ because I have a brother working there at a senior level. I do not want to be accused of having any vested interests or anything like that. Decisions were made on RTÉ that I think were sensible. RTÉ has funding pressures. The budgetary announcement will help somewhat in that but RTÉ also has responsibilities to provide a significant volume of programming in a cost-effective way. However, we will continue to have a discussion with RTÉ, and indeed with other parties in this House, in respect of how we fund public service broadcasting. That discussion needs to continue but it is not true that this was the only measure in the budget for Irish media. We decided to retain the VAT rate of 9% for the newspaper industry, despite changing that rate for many other sectors. Irish media did get preferential treatment for the reasons the Deputy Eamon outlined.