Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. Gerry O'Regan:

Again, maybe in conversation it would come up. I am not suggesting that it was like absolute rigid walls that one could not discuss "Yea" or "Nay". Obviously one would discuss the economy or I am sure, maybe at the time, the property boom and how things were going but it would be part of general discussion. At the end of the day it is very difficult to come up with a precise formula for what should or should not be covered in newspapers which will absolutely work by way of the newspaper.