...committee hearing into the Fr Kevin Reynolds libel fiasco.Chairman Tom Savage and director general Noel Curran faced a...
Every day I give to the job would be a financial loss for what I could be doing elsewhere. But it is worth doing and...
...said it was more likely that a second bailout would be required if there was a No vote."In those circumstances, we wouldn't...
Labour figures have sharply refuted the claim by Fine Gael that Pat Rabbitte has failed to convince his Cabinet colleagues...
Minister Pat Rabbitte last night said he had "no hand" in a libel payout made by RTE over remarks he made about a...
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FOR Communications Pat Rabbitte has insisted the RTÉ board retains his full support in implementing changes to editorial procedures, despite further calls for resignations over the Fr Kevin Reynolds affair. Three members of the Oireachtas communications... Full Article at Irish Times
RTE wrongly accused Fr Reynolds of raping a woman and fathering a child in Kenya in its Prime Time Investigates Mission to Prey programme, which aired last May. A report compiled by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland last month found the broadcaster... Full Article at Belfast Telegraph
My confidence has been shaken, I have to say, but I have to hear what they [the board] have to say, because it’s fair to say they scarcely feature at all in the report that we have before us
The broadcasting boss dismissed calls for his resignation in the wake of the defamation of innocent priest Fr Kevin Reynolds, who was wrongly accused of rape and fathering a child. “It’s up to the minister to decide whether I’m a fit person or not,”... Full Article at BreakingNews.ie
INTEREST shown by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the ownership of Independent News and Media is commendable, but you would have to wonder if Pat Rabbitte might be better off focusing his efforts on Eircom right now. ... Full Article at Irish Times
We need to have that insurance policy of having access to the bailout fund. The No side say we will still have access but they want us to walk on a tightrope.” Door-to-door canvassing is the political version of a cold call. With the troika “correcting... Full Article at Irish Times
I intend to leave the board and the chairman under no misapprehension about the huge challenge that now confronts them in terms of restoring the trust that was the link with the Irish people
FOR Communications Pat Rabbitte has failed to convince his Cabinet colleagues that a new law on media mergers should be put through the Dáil before the summer recess. Early last month, in the wake of businessman Denis O’Brien increasing his stake in... Full Article at Irish Times
There were rowdy scenes in the Seanad yesterday after a Fianna Fáil Senator claimed RTE had settled the case on the same day that Mr Rabbitte met the board of the broadcaster on another matter last week. The agreement was reported to have cost the... Full Article at BreakingNews.ie
HAS sent a report to Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte indicating how and when it plans to introduce reforms on foot of a critical account of the libelling of Fr Kevin Reynolds in a Prime Time Investigates programme. A spokesman for the Minister... Full Article at Irish Times
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Pat Rabbitte (born 18 May 1949) is a senior Irish politician. He was leader of the Labour Party from October 2002 until 23 August 2007. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin South West since 1989, and is also the Labour Party spokesperson on Northern Ireland. Full Article At Wikipedia.org
The Director General, with the support of the Board of RTE, has introduced comprehensive reforms in editorial structures, in management, and in operations. Journalists, editors, and programme makers are being trained in new editorial guidelines
My confidence has been shaken, I have to say, but I have to hear what they [the board] have to say, because it’s fair to say they scarcely feature at all in the report that we have before us
I intend to leave the board and the chairman under no misapprehension about the huge challenge that now confronts them in terms of restoring the trust that was the link with the Irish people
As we move in Ireland and across Europe to a low carbon economy, we will rely on greater use of renewable energy and a well functioning, well interconnected internal energy market
The existing law on ownership applies until new ownership laws are put in place, and I would hope that can happen as soon as possible
I don’t want to be personal about the cardinal – I don’t know the detail.
not yet established that the BAI code in this regard is ineffective
I am shocked at the notion that this marauding paedophile - Fr Smyth - could have been brought under control so many years earlier and could have saved so many young people from so much sorrow and distress ... It is a great shame that there weren't earlier interventions and it seems to me that there oug...
Nobody in Government is trying to scare anybody. This is a very important decision that has to be taken calmly and after proper public discussion
The church authorities should have done more. I don't want to be personal about the cardinal, I don't know the detail.
Unless that changes, there will be no biomass grown by farmers in this country
Bord Gais Energy's commitment to investing in and developing wind farms means that the company is now one of the largest generators of renewable energy in Ireland
Listing to some commentators one gets the impression that’s once you’ve got a new government all you had to do was wait for automatic transformation. We got a new Government but we didn’t get a new economy.
This has been a prolonged, acute slump
The Grid Link Project will reinforce the electricity grid and have direct economic benefits for our local communities
It is being bruited in Kerry by the promoters that I can give a policy direction on the matter to the regulator. I want to make it clear that I can give a general policy direction, but I cannot intervene on behalf of, or in opposition to, a particular project.
Given the labyrinthine processes that have to be gone through, nobody at this stage can say that a deal can be done or is near being finalised
matter of public record that I canvassed on behalf of my former parliamentary colleague
It would be inappropriate for me as Minister to interfere in the editorial affairs of RTÉ.
I'm very hopeful that a deal will be reached and reached sooner [rather] than later
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Pat Rabbitte @CarolMHunt http://t.co/sHTOtKUi #vinb
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RT @GrainneGG: Pat Rabbitte incognito http://t.co/I8iNRera
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Pat Rabbitte incognito http://t.co/I8iNRera
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Pat Rabbitte and Ireland: As to the role of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, as well as the capacity of the 2009 Act to deal with what has happened, these are matters for early and well-focused political debate.
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