Results 9,201-9,220 of 10,459 for speaker:Bertie Ahern
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: The media monitoring unit in my Department disseminates a summary of radio and television news headlines. It does not list everything in every newspaper every day. Of course it will always pick up the headlines, major stories and, for that matter, editorial stories.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: It forwards newspaper headlines on a regular basis to a wide range of people across Departments. That is what it does a number of times every day. The Aer Lingus decision on the establishment of a hub in Belfast and the withdrawal of Shannon-Heathrow services was announced by the company on 7 August. The position is no reports of the decision came to the attention of the communications unit...
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I said the northern newspapers and the Irish Examiner.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: They were not leading articles, and Deputy Kenny knows that.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: What page was it on?
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: It was not picked up by the communications unit. It was not listed as one of its stories of the day, even though it had a long list of stories that day. It was in the Irish Examiner and the Belfast Telegraph. That was seen by the Department but, as we know now from the reports that the Minister, Deputy Dempsey, has, the Department did not believe at that stage that that was a major story....
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: It takes a range of the stories of the day and covers all the major stories.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I looked at where that was in the newspaper. If it was to list every heading and item across the national newspapersââ
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: ââthat was not in a position of prominence. Even on this morning's list it would probably have approximately 15 headlines.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I am not sure, but I think it did.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: If not, I gave the FOI request on the issue. It normally covers The Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Irish Examiner.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: Even if it took the Irish Examiner that dayââ
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: ââthe article was not in a prominent position. It would probably take seven or eight stories, not 30 or 40 stories.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: If it did, it would not be a brief summary. That is the point.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: Sometimes that happens.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I have explained many times what the unit does. It is not a political outfit.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: It is not like party press offices that misrepresent statements in the House every day. That is not its function. Even if Deputy Gilmore believes it is a matter of someone in a Department just clicking on websites, then someone must be doing that. It is what the people in the communications unit do. They send back someone else's data. This is why they have been seconded to the unit. The...
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: They do not communicate every single headline in every newspaper everyday, only when asked. Before, every Department used outside agencies to get interviews, tapes and cassettes, costing the State a fortune. The unit monitors, keeps the data and does scripts, saving the State a large amount of money. Ten years ago when it was done the old way, we spent nearly as much money as we are...
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: I object to everything Deputy Gilmore said. He is entirely wrong and has made a slur on civil servants, namely, that they are doing a job they are not doing.
- Departmental Bodies. (28 Nov 2007)
Bertie Ahern: This is a reprehensible attack on civil servants by the leader of the Labour Party. He is entirely wrong.