RTÉ impartiality and funding
Senator Walsh calls for a debate on alleged pro-abortion bias, high salaries and the cost and scope of RTÉ, suggesting the national broadcaster may need to be dismantled.
I say to those who are of a pro-life disposition that perhaps it is time for us to get together and refuse to pay our RTE licence fee. It would not be my intention that the pro-abortion and pro-killing of unborn babies policy-----
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-----which is endemic in RTE would be allowed to continue-----
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I want to confirm what Senator David Norris has said. This language is not appropriate.
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-----in particular as we are funding the overpaid salaries in RTE. There are people who earn up to €500,000 a year for jobs that do not require a great deal of qualifications. I ask for a debate in this House on the lack of impartiality and balance in our national broadcaster. Perhaps it is time to dismantle the national broadcaster. We do not need the range of-----
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We do not need the range of radio and television stations that it is promoting at present at significant cost to the taxpayers who support it.