Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

I refer to those programmes that have been mentioned, such as "I’m An Adult, Get Me Out Of Here", "House Hunters" etc. One of those programmes was presented by a person who was the managing director of a property finance company and was a mortgage broker.

In the course of those programmes, he would have been encouraging people to go out and buy, for example, just before the 2007 general election. These programmes were aired late on in the boom cycle. Did RTE have any concerns about a conflict of interest in terms of broadcasting a programme about buying houses which was presented by someone with a direct business interest in the mortgage market?