The comments were made for all to note. The programme is available online and can be accessed. Senators Averil Power, Ivana Bacik and others will be aware of the hate campaign on Twitter.

Is the Senator looking for a debate on the issue?

I am looking for a debate on it, but I also want to condemn the hate mail to an organisation that has recently suffered a very tragic event as the result of the death of one of its senior members of staff. Members of this House sympathise with those in the organisation on their loss. The organisation is now getting e-mails telling people in it to kill themselves. I ask the Senators who might support that kind of thinking if they would stand over this. I certainly do not and do not think any democrat should either.

Does the Senator have a question for the Leader?

I am asking the Leader if he agrees that the Iona Institute, in particular, has never had abusive comments or derogatory remarks made against it, nor has it ever been in any way homophobic. What it stands for, a view which many people in this country and I share - I also look forward to the debate in the lead-up to the referendum - is that every child is entitled to have a mother and a father involved in his or her rearing and development and that any deprivation of this-----

That is not relevant to the Order of Business.

It is very relevant in view of the fact that RTE, as the public broadcaster, failed once again to meet the threshold of being balanced in its reporting and programming. That is unacceptable and I ask the Minister to come into the House to have a debate on the issue.