Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 June 2015
234. Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied) and with senior executives within the person's media companies here; and the outcome of such meetings. [23045/15]
View answerSince taking office, there have been no public or private, official or unofficial, engagements or meetings between me and Denis O'Brien. Nor have there been such meetings between me and representatives of Mr O'Brien's company Communicorp Group Ltd.
For the sake of completeness, I should inform the Deputy that there was a pre-Budget meeting on the 24th Sept 2014 with representatives of the Independent News and Media group which I attended.
I took part in a speaking engagement which included a Q&A session with journalists of Independent Newspapers on April 8th 2014. Senior management of Independent News and Media were also in attendance.
As the Deputy may be aware, I regularly contribute to events both nationally and internationally and therefore it might be the case that I could contribute to events where Mr O'Brien or his executives may have been in the audience.
