Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I commend Deputy Joan Collins for introducing the Bill. Having read and considered the Bill, it is the essence of the person who has introduced it, as it comes from the point of view of fairness. Fairness is supreme to Deputy Collins. That is the reason she introduced the Bill.

She has put a considerable amount of work into the Bill. When one does that one would like people to hear what is involved. What Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin or other parties do in such cases is to hold a press conference. Sadly, when people from this group put forward good ideas they get ignored. One person turned up. I am disappointed for two reasons. The first is that the media attends press conferences of organisations that have destroyed this country and will not attend press conferences of people who are trying to make a change. More importantly, I am surprised they did not turn up because many media organisations have already benefitted from similar write-downs to what Deputy Collins has suggested and that achieve the same result. I was surprised when two particular media organisations, which I do not know if I am allowed to mention because it is against the rules-----

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