Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----person involved from the UN committee being interviewed. It was a very soft interview by a very good interviewer for whom I have good regard but who unfortunately on this occasion failed to put the difficult questions. The interviewee was allowed to get away with all sorts of disingenuous statements. On the other hand, a representative of the pro-life organisation was rightly scrutinised on the points she was making very well.

The payment of water charges is causing a lot of controversy. Our water rates will not be any more than a TV licence fee. I wonder why many of us would pay our moneys to an organisation which is totally biased and unbalanced and not fulfilling its requirements under the Broadcasting Act and it is in receipt of €160 a year from every one of us. It is unacceptable and perhaps the time is coming when people must stand up and perhaps have a boycott of the television licence until RTE fulfils its statutory obligations under the Broadcasting Act. "The Ray D'Arcy Show" in particular was appalling.