Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Strategic Plan 2012-17 and Other Issues: RTE
12:05 pm
Mr. Eamonn Kennedy:
The matters were negotiated over the course of about two weeks. Let us talk about what is typical, and this is no different from most cases. Someone who feels they have been defamed will look for a very extensive statement and the broadcaster will usually push back on that because they do not agree. That is what happened in this case. The thing gets negotiated. It involved two weeks of negotiation.