Results 14,761-14,780 of 21,588 for speaker:Denis Naughten
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: I want to be comprehensive on the matter.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: Colleagues in the House had raised the issue with me on a regular basis.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: The staff of the Westmeath Independenthad raised it with me following an on-the-record interview.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: With regard to Independent News & Media, I did have a conversation with Leslie Buckley on 3 May 2017 at the data summit. That was the only other engagement that I had with staff of Independent News & Media.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: The National Union of Journalists said of me on 10 November that I had the power to examine this acquisition. The union urged me to display political leadership and courage. The union went on to say that failure to do so would represent an act of political cowardice, something we have experienced many times when it has come to challenging media interests. The only new information that I...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: -----and that is exactly what I did. I did not have insider information. I did not have confidential information, so I could not have disclosed it to him.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: 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. ...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: Everyone would have been of that view. In fact, had I not done that and had that not been the advice, I would have been grilled here in the House as to why I did not take that approach.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: First, on the conversation I had with Leslie Buckley, I am trying to recall the detail of that, but I do not recall him raising with me at that stage the issues that are currently before the House If he had, I would have been quite consistent, as I was with every other individual who raised this issue with me, that it was part of an ongoing process and that I was not prepared to comment any...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: The reason I believe it would have been preferable had I not had that conversation is that I would not be in here answering these questions, but the reality is that I did not have any sensitive or confidential information to impart at that time, and I did not. As I said, the only new information that I gave was that I would be taking the advice of my officials, and that is what I did do. To...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: I am not definitive whether it was either the 10th or the 11th. I just cannot recall. I think Mr. Ó Neachtain, from media reports, seems to think it was the 11th and that may very well have been the case. That was the first that I had heard of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, announcement. I had not made that. It was a very brief conversation with Eoghan...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: No, I did not mislead the Dáil. What I told the Dáil was that when I received the report from my officials, I would make a decision based on that report, and that is what I told Mr. Ó Neachtain in that telephone conversation. That was the only new information that Mr. Ó Neachtain would have received about that. I did not have any insider information. I did not have...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: I know Eoghan Ó Neachtain like the vast majority of the Members of this House. He worked here for a long number of years. He was a Government press secretary to, I think, three different taoisigh, both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael taoisigh, and that is how I would have known him. I would have had conversations with him not that regularly, mostly about rugby, believe it or not,...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: -----if one were to review the register. The only information, as I said, that I gave Eoghan Ó Neachtain was that I would be taking the advice of my officials, and I was quite categoric in relation to that.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: No, I did not inform my officials because, at the time, there was no active file within the Department. I had made it clear to Mr. Ó Neachtain that I would be following the advice of my officials. As I have already said, I would have preferred it had the conversation not taken place, but it did. However, I made it crystal clear at the time that I would be basing my decision on the...
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: The view that I gave was based on the information that all of us had and was in the public domain-----
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: -----the guidelines and procedures that were in place and outlined on our website, and the scale of the issue.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: That is consistent with the commentary from Deputy Stanley in the House-----
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: -----the National Union of Journalists and other commentators in this area outside the jurisdiction.
- Statement by Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment (18 Apr 2018)
Denis Naughten: I have absolutely nothing to hide in this regard. I encourage colleagues to look at the file that is available in my Department. Go through it-----