Resumen de Ireland: : Complaint from government health authority over RTÉ investigative programme rejected
On 1 September 2015, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) held, by a majority, that the public broadcaster RTÉ did not violate the Broadcasting Act’s and Broadcasting Code’s rules on fairness and objectivity when it broadcast a programme based on a leaked internal document from a government health authority. A complaint had been made by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to the BAI following a broadcast of RTÉ’s current affairs programme "Prime Time", which concerned a pregnant asylum seeker and her interactions with a number of government agencies. The programme broadcast information from a draft report which had been commissioned by the HSE, and which had not yet been made public
