The Irish government is hot on the subject of Retirement Centers. This is good, except that it’s not due to the years of filed complaints setting in it’s files. It’s due to the news program on RTE that has made it impossible for the government to turn a blind eye to it any more.
It’s scary that the retirement/nursing home at the center of the program attempted to prevent the airing of the program. And almost won.
More amazing is the fact that RTE is a government run broadcasting system. You could just imagine what a truly independent broadcasting news media could bring to light here.
Then again the current government has been attempting to muzzle the media here with threats of creating government oversight committees to review published content. (read censorship)
That coupled with the extension of the waiting period for release of ‘freedom of information’ requests from 5 years to 10 years does not bode well for truth in government.
And then there is the issue of the brown envelopes.