Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

The House has passed the Broadcasting Act, which contains requirements for the Minister to make appointments to two boards, the RTE board and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland board, and also for the Oireachtas joint committee to come forward with recommendations. We went through an exhaustive procedures to come up with our recommendations. Unusually for a Green Party Minister, the Minister did not make the appointments. We now find he has had to put a stay on all the appointments because there is some legal difficulty.

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