Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My concern is that in the absence of a list some people will have an inside track. A Minister of any Government might have a preference as to who gets selected for consultation. A Minister might owe a political favour to a person who owns a broadcasting licence and might give him or her precedence over someone else. If the Minister could point me to the reference to the public nature of the consultation, he would assuage many of my concerns.

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