Eoghan Harris (Independent)

The remarks made about the Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources are unfounded. I read the letter. It is a very calm letter and it sets out, in some detail, to query the wisdom of 18 RTE reporters interviewing, in many cases, each other about the tribunal. It is very hard to argue that this should not more properly be the business of RTE internal editorial committees, which clearly have not been doing their duty. There is no argument to sustain that on that particular week the fairly minor affairs of St. Luke's constituency office were of more importance than anything else that was happening in the country——