Rónán Mullen (Independent)

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Do I feel bad about living on benefits? Certainly! I don't want to live at the Government's cost, which is why I treat this help as an opportunity to start my own business."

This is an accurate report of comments made by a lady called Magda, who we all heard about yesterday. It appears an article in a Polish newspaper was seriously misrepresented in one of our national newspapers yesterday. I commend Senator O'Keeffe on what she said about ethical journalism. It is instructive for us to think for a moment about what happened. One of our colleagues, Senator Harte, spoke eloquently on national radio yesterday criticising this person for her views and I am sure he did so in good faith. If it had not been for that media misrepresentation, he would not have gone on the programme and said what he did. That is how the media does a disservice at times to the public.