Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy McDonald is free to make up and imagine anything she likes but I can say what transpired because I was there. The only reference to RTÉ was in relation to the "Mission to Prey" programme, and a lot of people around the table were not aware of it. Perhaps some of them believed that investigative reporting was always true so I gave an example of a case where it was not, and where a story became more important than the truth. That happens and we should not be afraid to say it. In private, we talk about stories that were sensationalised and, as politicians, we should not be afraid to say that.

The issue of media ownership did not come up. Had it done so, I would have been happy to discuss it and I have discussed it in this House on previous occasions.

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