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Topical Issue Debate: RTE Compensation Payment (6 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I fully accept the Minister's position regarding involvement in the day-to-day management of RTE. However, we as a society and this Parliament have a role to play in the national broadcaster. RTE got it completely wrong. It folded in its tent . This week in the Oireachtas we were told as gay people that it is a matter of "social re-engineering" by the "gay ideological movement". I am...

Topical Issue Debate: RTE Compensation Payment (6 Feb 2014)

Seán Barrett: The next item is under the names of Deputies John Lyons, Jerry Buttimer, Michael Colreavy, Clare Daly, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Catherine Murphy and Mick Wallace, regarding RTE's reported compensation to the Iona Institute and others. Deputies will have two minutes each and one for a supplementary. I ask Deputies to be careful of what they say and to remember what is allowable under Standing...

Topical Issue Debate: RTE Compensation Payment (6 Feb 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The sequence of events arising from “The Saturday Night Show” give rise to serious concerns on how public discourse is conducted, the language we use, the labels we apply to others and, more important, the role of our public service broadcaster. I believe RTE was erroneous and wrong in what it did in this case. It folded too quickly. Who advised the broadcaster on this? What...

Topical Issue Debate: RTE Compensation Payment (6 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: ...to hold dissenting views on controversial subjects. That means, however, one also has to have the right to express a different opinion on that dissenting view and call it by its proper name. As Deputy Buttimer said, if someone is known to be a racist, has expressed racist views, and we call them a racist, are we to then to apologise to them for calling them by the right name? This...