Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Elaine Byrne:

I would defer to the editors when they come here. When I was living in Australia, it was very noticeable that the property correspondents in the newspapers were sponsored by particular property companies, and the financial correspondents in different newspapers and television reports were sponsored by particular banks. There are all sorts of conflicts of interest there. I do not think it was to that extent here.