John Lyons (Dublin North West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. Two people in here know what homophobia feels like, what it is like to be called a queer, a fag, a gay. Just before Christmas I walked from my house around to the Centra where a bunch of teenagers called me gay or some other name they call us. I thought I was living in a society where this stuff is no longer acceptable. On "The Saturday Night Show" Rory O'Neill challenged people on these issues and called it what it is. When it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it must be a duck. RTE was completely wrong and bang out of order when it got numerous types of legal advice saying perhaps it should not give out any sort of compensation. RTE got it wrong. Everybody in the public knows it got it wrong. RTE needs to come out and let us know that it got it wrong. Otherwise there will not be confidence in our national broadcaster to mediate any debate with confidence, particularly around issues that affect my life, the people who love me and love all the other people who are not treated properly in this society.

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