Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am very surprised at the Deputy raising all of those questions but I can understand why he might be asking them. As the Deputy will recall, on Wednesday, 19 February 2014, there was a meeting of the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions, which lasted for more than four hours and at which I answered extensive questions, including those the Deputy just raised. The Deputy was present briefly at that meeting and many Members of the House who were interested in those issues attended throughout the four hours. I was surprised that the Deputy, having appeared at the meeting, then disappeared and did not raise a single one of those questions at it, all of which the Deputy would see, if he read the transcript, were addressed at some length.

The Deputy did not have any great difficulty in the days leading up to that meeting visiting as many broadcasting stations and participating in as many as possible radio-----

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