Regarding the third-party committee that examines the entertainment issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda changed the initial policy of having Deputy Minister Shintani at the top of the House of Councilors Budget Committee, and all members were members to ensure objectivity. Clarified the intention to be a third party.
Among them, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda commented on a third-party committee set up in the ministry to verify the entertainment problem, saying, "I was planning to make the person in charge of business the deputy minister, but I think it cannot guarantee objectiveness and transparency. Based on the Diet's point, the committee will be made up of a third party. "
In addition, Deputy Minister Shintani explained that his secretary had a dinner with NTT in November last year.
For this reason, the Constitutional Democratic Party argued that the secretary's dinner might have something to do with not including Deputy Minister Shintani on the third-party committee, but Minister Takeda said it was "not." ..
On the other hand, Deputy Secretary General Sakai said that he had a dinner with NTT three years ago when he was the Deputy Minister of General Affairs. I haven't been asked to do anything related to my duties at the time, and I think that it does not violate the norms of the ministers, etc.