Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Maybe not, but there were a number of allegations, one of which was that this was the biggest public relations campaign ever run by the Government. It was not. It was not even the biggest run this year by the Government. The allegation was that this was somehow unprecedented, which I dispute. An allegation which was made and which has now been completely refuted by four local newspaper editors, was that they were somehow pressurised by a civil servant or someone acting on the Government's behalf to use pictures of Fine Gael Senators and candidates. All four confirmed that was not the case. Either the editors are telling porkies or are involved in some sort of cover-up or the Opposition was involved in coming up with conspiracy theories. Which does the Deputy think was true?