Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
Coimisiún na Meán’s Code of Fairness, Impartiality and Objectivity in News and Current Affairs: Discussion
2:00 am
Brian Brennan (Wicklow-Wexford, Fine Gael)
I welcome Mr. Yates. Fair play to him for coming here because plenty refused.
First, I will dwell on the point that was brought up several times, which is conflict of interest, yet again. We do not understand. He is training someone in the media and then going in, maybe within the same day, as we heard earlier, to give political commentary on it. How is that not a conflict of interest? Is that not like Mr. Yates training Troy Parrott in the Irish team and then refereeing the game in the second half?
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