Broadcasting and press ownership standards

Summary

Keating argued that broadcasting licensing and newspaper ownership were subject to different standards. The Ceann Comhairle ruled that the broadcasting issue was outside the question and stopped the exchange.

Michael Keating Mr. Keating Fine Gael

In the context of the discussion on the question of licensing broadcasting stations, do the Government see an anomaly there?

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

That is a different question, and the Minister need not answer it.

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Michael Keating Mr. Keating Fine Gael

What it boils down to is that there is one standard for the newspapers and another for the television.

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

That is an argument which we are not dealing with now.

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Michael Keating Mr. Keating Fine Gael

It is a question of fundamental public policy.

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

It has nothing to do with the question.

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

Order. We cannot have an argument across the floor.

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