Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I met with Leslie Buckley on 3 May 2017 at a data summit in the RDS organised by Independent News & Media. I was a speaker at it. Leslie Buckley greeted me and we exchanged small talk before I actually addressed the event. I left immediately after that event. At that stage the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland was still considering the matter in respect of its determination.

The reality is that at that stage if any Member here in the House was asked what his perspective was, based on all the information that had been in the public domain, he would have said that this was an application that would have to go to the BAI.

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