David Norris (Independent)

I cannot let the idea go unchallenged that the sense of a disconnection was because of a lack of information and a lack of information and broadcasting, although that may have been an element. When the most senior politicians in Europe are saying the Lisbon treaty was deliberately obfuscated so that it could be sold to the Irish people, who could then be relied on to do what they were told, and that whereas the first treaty was written so as to be readable, the second, on which we have just voted, was made deliberately illegible, it is time to look elsewhere for that disconnect. It is time to look into the heart of Brussels.

I accept that the broadcasting of the proceedings of the European Parliament might be of interest. I have sometimes come across those proceedings when I fiddle around with the monitors in Leinster House. I assume this may be covered as part of the proposed Oireachtas channel.