The Tánaiste Joan Burton has slammed the countries national broadcaster RTÉ, claiming that the the broadcaster needs to be fairer and more impartial in relation to the issue of water charges.
Ms Burton made her comments after it was revealed in an Irish Independent report that certain TDs who opposed the charges were given more air time on RTÉ programmes last month than those who currently support the government. The Tanaiste claims the broadcaster needs to be careful that it tells all sides of the story.
Ms Burton said: “I think certainly, at a certain point, RTÉ’s sense of excitement, perhaps, about the water charges seemed to mean that their focus was almost exclusively on the people who are making a case about not paying,” she went onto say: “They seem to leave to one side those huge number of households and people who have decided that we need a proper system of water infrastructure in this country.”