Ms Geraldine Kennedy:

I will not name anybody but I would not like members to think that happened during the boom because it did not. It happened in the 1970s and if the inquiry is interested in the issue, it was written about by Frank McDonald, an expert from The Irish Timeswhom the committee also called before it, on page 216 of his book, The Destruction of Dublin. This concerned events that took place in the early 1970s. As a result of this controversy, new ethics guidelines were agreed with the National Union of Journalists and introduced in The Irish Times.