Government leaders have "come to a view" that former editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, should remain as a member of the Future of Media Commission, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has said.
In a statement, Catherine Martin said she raised the issue with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who in turn discussed the matter with the other coalition party leaders before they came to their decision.
Ms Martin said they had "not arrived at this conclusion lightly" and accepted that it would "come as a disappointment" to Máiría Cahill, who has been in contact with the minister and Taoiseach Micheál Martin in relation to the issue.
Last week The Guardian apologised to Ms Cahill over an article written about her by former columnist Roy Greenslade.
The former Labour senator has said she was sexually abused as a 16-year-old by alleged IRA member Martin Morris.
Mr Morris, who denied all wrongdoing, was acquitted of rape when the case against him collapsed.
In 2014 Mr Greenslade wrote a column in The Guardian which said that the BBC, which investigated Ms Cahill's claims, "were too willing to accept Cahill's story and did not point to countervailing evidence.
"That is not to say that she was not raped.
"Nor does it negate her view that the IRA handled her complaint clumsily and insensitively."
Ms Cahill alleges that the republican movement's response to her claims was to subject her to an IRA interrogation.
She also accused Sinn Féin of engaging in a cover-up and waging a campaign to question her integrity since she waived her right to anonymity.
Recently, Mr Greenslade wrote in the British Journalism Review that he backed the IRA's armed campaign while he was working as a journalist during the Northern Ireland conflict.
The Guardian, in an update attached to Mr Greenslade's original 2014 piece, said: "In March 2021, Mairia Cahill contacted the Guardian to complain that this article had been published and without disclosure of the writer's political affiliations."
It added: "The Guardian's readers' editor considered the complaint and concluded that the columnist ought to have been open about his position."
After concerns raised by a reader following publication of the article in 2014 that Mr Greenslade had not disclosed his Sinn Féin sympathies, he started to declare his writing during the 1980s for the party's newspaper, An Phoblacht, including at the end of two more blogs relating to Ms Cahill.
The Guardian added: "He now says he regrets that he did not add it retrospectively to this piece and offers his 'sincere apology for failing to disclose my own interests'.
"Columnists are hired for their opinions but the readers' editor considered that here the writer's political position should have been indicated openly.
"The lack of disclosure was especially unfair to a vulnerable individual, and the Guardian has now apologised to Ms Cahill."
The members of the Future of Media Commission said they unanimously support the continued membership of Mr Rusbridger.
They said they believe it is important for Mr Rusbridger and The Guardian to apologise to Ms Cahill, "who has exposed important issues of media standards and transparency".
In a statement the members said "these issues will continue to form part of the Commission's ongoing work."
In her statement, Minister Martin said she is "appalled at the abuse suffered by Máiría Cahill and the subsequent horrendous ordeal that she had to endure.
"The actions of Roy Greenslade in seeking to undermine Ms Cahill by questioning her motives, while failing to reveal his own allegiances, were abhorrent.
Ms Martin said she "noted the apology issued by Alan Rusbridger, today's statement by the Future of Media Commission and correspondence which I received this morning from Mr Rusbridger in which he states that he was not aware of Roy Greenslade's blog post when it was published nor of subsequent legal correspondence with The Guardian on behalf of Ms Cahill".
She confirmed that "the issues of media transparency and standards that Máiría Cahill has raised" will continue to form part of the Future of Media Commission's work.
