Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. Tom Murphy:

Certainly, yes. I will deal with the second part of the question first. At the peak, the number of staff working in the property advertising sales area would have been three sales executives. They dealt with property advertising in the Irish Examiner. That is now down to maybe two people, with holiday and sickness cover coming from a pool of other staff. I believe there were two people working on the editorial side of the property supplement and property matters generally. That is now probably down to one and a half at his stage. Regarding pagination, at the height of the market the Saturday property supplement would have run from 48 to 64 pages and occasionally 72 pages. It is currently approximately half that.