Mr. Ed Mulhall:

Not at all, to my knowledge, and I would have attended all the editorial conferences that reviewed the programme. Every programme that we broadcast would be reviewed on Friday after broadcast, at which time we would deal with any issues that came up in the programmes. It would have been discussed in advance of broadcast in the forward plans. If there had been a major issue it could have been brought up at an executive board, so I can say none of that came across.

The other thing that is probably worth stressing as well - I will probably come back to this later - is that it was not an isolated programme from RTE in that period. A year previously, in June, the other documentary that I mentioned in my statement, "Boom", which George Lee presented, dealt with pretty much the same issues in a wider context.