Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

The requirements of the McKenna judgment for fair and impartial coverage of the treaty debates only provided set pieces on radio and television which degenerated into ding-dong and unintelligible debates. It gave coverage to a "Yes" commentator who was then negated by a "No" commentator in the same programme. It was a simplistic and crude approach to put across the complexities of the Lisbon treaty. The national broadcaster failed miserably.

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