Taoiseach Simon Harris has denied that contact by the Fine Gael party with RTÉ was an attempt to influence how the broadcaster handled a video clip of an interaction between Mr Harris and an upset carer.
Mr Harris told the Joe Finnegan show on Shannonside and Northern Sound radio stations that the media interest in the interaction had been an opportunity for him to expound on Fine Gael’s policy on carers and around disability services.
It had been “entirely appropriate” for the clip to be broadcast as it had been “a very important interaction on the campaign trail.”
“I put my hands up and owned my mistake. But if anything good can come from this, and I really hope it can, it is that, thankfully, now we are talking about issues in relation to carers and disability and, for what it’s worth, these are the issues that brought me into politics, watching my own mother cry with frustration at the lack of services.”
Mr Harris said it was his…
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