Mr. Robert Watt:

I do not wish to get into the issue of RTÉ. RTÉ needs to reach its own conclusions on its report and to defend it based on the evidence that has been out there. Since we published these reports, I am not aware that RTÉ has made any comment and it has not produced any evidence to support its allegations, which are of the most serious nature. Of the seven allegations we have set out - and there are subsets to that - RTÉ has not provided any additional information that would corroborate or provide support for the serious allegations it made. The notion that officials at a Department are prying on families is serious. It is up to RTÉ to reflect on the programme when it has read the reports.