Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
No, I did not. I was still hopeful that she would agree to meet me on the Friday, no matter what she was saying, because I felt it was a rash decision. It is quite unprecedented for a chair of a State body to refuse to meet a Minister so I was still hopeful it would happen. I said it on several occasions on "Prime Time". I was trying to keep the door open by not saying I had no confidence and by saying I wanted to afford her an opportunity to speak to me.
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