Victor Boyhan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I was thinking about the journalists when I saw them doing their exposé last night and doing investigative journalism really well. I think of the institutional abuses, the sex abuse in institutions, the over-the-counter pharmacy shown on "Prime Time", the shortcomings of the Dental Council of Ireland and the Medical Council of Ireland. It has continued to advocate and shine a light on real issues that we tend to come in here the next day and raise here under Commencement matters. Fair play to RTÉ and to its journalists. The "Prime Time" journalists are exemplary in public broadcasting. They are everything that is good about public broadcasting and RTÉ.Finally, I wish RTÉ and its new director general well as it begins to turn a corner because we need it and it needs us. It does a service for the citizens of which it can be truly proud.