Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

——mounted on a white charger like Don Quixote, tilting his lance at one of the pylons. We know what happened to Don Quixote. I note, however, that the same Minister has not voiced any objection to the number of occasions on which Ministers are accommodated by soft interviews on RTE, as if it were their toy. It is the national broadcasting station which is there for everybody and is not the preserve of Government. RTE should not be at the Government's beck and call.

Like a number of others in this House, many years ago I had occasion to examine Mountjoy Prison from the inside, having been a customer there for a while. In fact, I even spent one night next door to the death cell, although I do not know whether that was indicative of things to come. I was certainly there, however.

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