Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have been drip-fed information about the RTÉ scandal every day of the week for almost two weeks now. There are people in my constituency and all over the country who are rightly furious. We hear of wrong payments made to certain people RTÉ that have been going on for years. We hear of ticket purchases for bands at exorbitant prices and thousands of euro paid for flip-flop shoes, and on it goes. During all of this time, I have known a farmer in Rosscarbery on whose ground RTÉ has placed a mast to give service to the local community. Not alone is RTÉ's mast on this man's ground but it put a Vodafone mast on the same farmer's ground without his consent. The next thing he knew was that the might and power of RTÉ told him legally that it was going for squatter's rights. RTÉ threatened him with the might of its legal team and An Garda Síochána and, with the power it has, it wrongfully acquired squatter's rights on another man's registered ground. If this is not an abuse of power, what is? It is a true and modern case of David versus Goliath and it was all going on while RTÉ squandered money left, right, and centre in darker ways. Whatever investigations go on within RTÉ due to these scandals being fed daily to the public, will the Tánaiste work to have this man's violated rights put right? Instead of RTÉ using its might to get squatter's rights on another man's ground, will the Tánaiste have RTÉ sit down with the registered owner of the ground and accept that he is the legally registered owner of the grounds on which it is trespassing?

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