Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

That article subsequently appeared in The Irish Timeslater in September. I thank Mr. O'Regan for the clarification in relation to Brendan Keenan. In the final sentence of his opening remarks, Mr. O'Regan said "there was no hidden agenda in the Irish Independent to try to artificially bolster the property market for the period under review". How would he describe what the paper was doing? Was it bolstering it in any shape or form? Even if one takes out the word "artificially", was the paper encouraging, supporting or doing anything at all given that Mr. O'Regan said he had to reflect life as it was and that any editor would want to do that.