Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-27
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

There is no question about that. The selective and distorted way that stories originate and are presented leaves an awful lot to be desired. This is a political organisation - that is my point - and the whole agenda is to create a campaign, get to the paid adds, get it trending, attack media if they do not cover it and then get it into the Dáil for questions and answers. We will make our judgment call on this as to the balance of how we approach it with Dáil questions and so on. I am very clear now on what is going on here. There is a political organisation out there; it is not an independent media platform by any stretch of the imagination, nor should anyone even suggest that it is because if you read all the tweets of Paddy Cosgrave or Chay Bowes in respect of me or other political leaders on this side of the House it is clear that their agenda is to take down the Government. That is fine and they are entitled to have that, but I understand what it is and I am not going to facilitate it every week, in and out here in Dáil Éireann.

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Sitting date: 2023-04-27