Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To reiterate, I believe a Minister has to be truthful. To not share information that had emerged that day would be me withholding information and I would be facing a very different committee. I would probably be here before the committee for other reasons, if I had done that.

On reform, I have said I am absolutely focused, where consecutive Governments have failed, on delivering the reform of the funding model for public service broadcasting and this Government is absolutely committee to that. That hinges on the recommendations of the expert advisory committees. We are awaiting those recommendations and they will arrive in March.