Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2022 and Related Matters: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Senator Craughwell was talking about the language that is being used. The Ombudsman himself said it. Has the Ombudsman had many complaints about, for example, local radio or national radio? As we said, it is scandalous that people are being painted as rapists, paedophiles, undocumented and unvetted. In some stations, there does not seem to be any impartiality to try to stop that kind of language being used. It feeds into the situation and there are people who use others' fear to whip up a lot of anger.

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