Martin Conway (Fine Gael)

This is a procedural issue on which I want clarity. I request the Leader and CPP to review the situation whereby one cannot name people who are regularly named on the public record and are consistently and regularly discussed in the media. To say that we in this House cannot name people during our discussions is ludicrous and puts us into a bubble in which none of us wants to be. The situation needs to be reviewed as a matter of urgency.

I agree with Senator Mullen on the RTE documentary which is the subject of a Broadcasting Commission investigation. When something is rotten to the core the core and not just part of it needs to be investigated. The programme has been demonstrated, through the courts of the land, to be rotten to the core. I call on the Leader to ask the Minister to direct the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to conduct a full investigation of the entire programme from A to Z, not just a portion of it.