Mr. Tom McGuire:

When I am speaking about "The Marian Finucane Show", I will deal with Deputy McCarthy's point on Councillor Lacey's complaint about this weekend's programme, which arrived yesterday. We dealt with it with the media overnight.

Events at the weekend wear a current affairs hat and a news hat at that time. The view taken by "The Marian Finucane Show" programme was that the four people heard on Saturday were reflecting what was going on in the gatherings from different parts of the country for the protest in the city and the show on Sunday was a reactive piece. In terms of trying to strike a balance, let us take the story this morning on the bills that Irish Water will issue and the feedback that people want, which was handled by "Morning Ireland" and was dealt with by people who were on the side of Irish Water, but we never saw the need to have a representative from the water protester side. It was dealt with as news. If "The Marian Finucane Show" had been dealing with Irish Water as an item on Saturday or Sunday, that would have been balanced but it was just reflecting what was happening.