A government minister has admitted that political party press offices are often behind texts and Tweets sent to the broadcast media.

Leo Varadkar has also confessed that includes the Fine Gael party.

The Minister says he has a “big problem” with broadcasters reading out e-mails, text and Tweets.

Minister Varadkar says the communication which pertains to be from members of the public are in many cases from political parties pushing their own agenda.

Well at least he admits his own party are at it.  Like the time they texted all their members an hour before a Liveline presidential poll to get them to vote for Gay Mitchell.

Or all of the General Election 2011 where they were encouraging members to tweet #twolicy and participate in programmes and push FG policy.

And yet Minister Varadkar thinks we need to find out if RTE compromised the democratic process?