Micheál Martin: “I don’t want to comment on the actual case as it is live, but I did raise it.”

The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire. The situation in the West Bank is deteriorating. The behaviour of the Netanyahu government is increasingly extreme.

I believe the licence fee does make a contribution, so this constant undermining of it, in my view, only makes things worse, because people are not prepared to support a universal levy.

We will work as an honest broker to try to narrow gaps and to bring people together.

This has been a major failing of an organ of the State that cannot be downplayed.