{"id":484,"date":"2018-04-18T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/social-democrats-call-for-minister-naughten-to-recuse-himself-from-any-role-in-media-regulation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-18T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:56:12","slug":"social-democrats-call-for-minister-naughten-to-recuse-himself-from-any-role-in-media-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/social-democrats-call-for-minister-naughten-to-recuse-himself-from-any-role-in-media-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Democrats call for Minister Naughten to recuse himself from any role in media regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy has used a topical debate in the D\u00e1il to ask the Minister for Communications Denis Naughten to recuse himself from any role in media regulation in Ireland based on the revelations by Simon Carswell and Mark Paul in today\u2019s Irish Times which suggest that the Minister relayed information regarding the treatment of the proposed Celtic Media Merger to INM representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during today\u2019s debate Catherine Murphy TD asked Minister Naughten why on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of December 2016, during a D\u00e1il debate on the matter, he had replied to a question she had posed by telling her that no decision had been made and that he \u2018hadn\u2019t received a report from his officials yet.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She queried how this could have been a truthful answer given that the revelations from the ODCE\u2019s affidavit show that almost a month earlier, on the 11<sup>th<\/sup> of November, \u00a0Minister Naughten had told a representative form Heneghan PR that the decision had been made to refer the matter to the BAI based on advice from his officials.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Murphy said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is appropriate that the Minister recuse himself from any role in relation to media regulation in this country given that today\u2019s revelations suggest a relationship between the minister, his Department and powerful individuals involved in media operations in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that the Minister refused to engage with the NUJ, who had legitimate concerns regarding the implications of the proposed merger for workers, based on the fact that a deliberative process was underway. Yet he clearly did not extend the same protocols to engaging with the Heneghan PR who were explicitly acting on behalf of INM and Leslie Buckley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>18th April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy has used a topical debate in the D\u00e1il to ask the Minister for Communications Denis Naughten to recuse himself from any role in media regulation in Ireland based on the revelations by Simon Carswell and Mark Paul in today\u2019s Irish Times which suggest that the Minister relayed information regarding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catherine-murphy","category-latest-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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