Ms Maeve Donovan:

My take on it would be that in so far as we are contributors to a dialogue, within society as a whole, I presume we have a role to some extent.

I would say to the Senator that the audience for The Irish Timesare very educated and are very well informed. I do not think that because we ran property advertisements in The Irish Timesthat the average reader, of The Irish Times, was running into the street, waving their chequebook and saying, "I'm going to pay an inflated price for whatever".