Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I thank the RTE management for their frank answers. I respect that. I want to make an observation. People would be surprised to learn that presenters of high profile programmes such as this one are so bound by the editors behind the scenes and the voices in their ear pieces that they do not have the flexibility to counterbalance a problem that might arise. I recommend to the management in RTE that people like Pat Kenny and other presenters should be told that in a situation where they believe something has gone wrong, and everybody watching the programme knew something was wrong, they should have the flexibility to ask an extra question or make a comment to balance it out. From the answers we have received I am surprised to learn they are so robotic.