Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

What was stopping Mr. Vaughan, as the editor, from asking his journalists to go out and seek such evidence, to try to challenge these views? What allowed him to be in a position in which he would accept what they were saying without challenging it? Mr. Vaughan cited the paper's own contrarians, Maurice O'Connell and Ryle Dwyer, whose views were published. Why did Mr. Vaughan not say to himself, "Mr. Dwyer said X, Y or Z; perhaps we should pursue that line, get some more information, and put that to the ESRI, the IMF or whomever?" What stopped him from doing that?