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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Chairman, in the interests of clarification, I believe that Senator MacSharry raised a point in relation to Mr. Browne. I believe he inadvertently suggested that Mr. Browne had said that property was offered and accepted by a journalist. I am not entirely sure that Mr. Browne said that it had been accepted. I do not believe Senator MacSharry meant it, but in the interests of that piece, I...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Would the sales staff have been on incentives for selling more advertising? That would be pretty normal in the wider industry but may not have been the case with the Irish Examiner.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Were the sales staff encouraged to seek out deals with particular organisations? Would they, for example, have done deals with particular estate agents over a period of time? Would there have been arrangements whereby if the agents took out a full page advertisement every week for 52 weeks, they would have been given a discount? Was that kind of thing going on?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Obviously at that time there were some estate agents that had more to advertise than others. There were bigger and smaller agents, and deals would have been done accordingly. Is that correct?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes; I said "accordingly". At the end of the day, what was the main reason for the company becoming insolvent? What was the driving force for that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is fine. In his statement, Mr. Vaughan spoke about the daily national newspaper, saying, "We are reliant on agents of the State to be competent, professional, open, honest and reliable in what they do and say, and then we report on that." Is it fair to say that is Mr. Vaughan's ethos and central point?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes. I am seeking clarification because Mr. Vaughan said "We are" and not "We were".

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Vaughan was speaking in the context of the time in question. Would he say that the newspaper is not like that any more?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: What made the newspaper take them on faith, given that there had been other stories in the past, going back decades, to indicate that such organisations were not always professional, open, honest and reliable? It is the role of a journalist to always question everything that is handed down and never to take anything as being set in stone.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Without question?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Is Mr. Vaughan saying that the newspaper did not challenge because it did not have any evidence?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: What was stopping Mr. Vaughan, as the editor, from asking his journalists to go out and seek such evidence, to try to challenge these views? What allowed him to be in a position in which he would accept what they were saying without challenging it? Mr. Vaughan cited the paper's own contrarians, Maurice O'Connell and Ryle Dwyer, whose views were published. Why did Mr. Vaughan not say to...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: As it was happening - say, in 2003 - I am curious to know why Mr. Vaughan, as the editor, would have been reliant on agents of the State in that way, rather than questioning them by seeking out the evidence. The paper had already published some contrarian views. What stopped it from pushing further?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Yes, but Mr. Vaughan was accepting the version presented by these bodies. Why were they any more valuable than the paper's capacity to challenge? I still do not understand what stopped the paper from challenging.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: As a former Senator, she knows how long the Senators can keep talking.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Doorly and Mr. O'Regan are welcome. I follow up Mr. O'Regan's remark about Mr. Morgan Kelly. I am not entirely clear what he was saying there. We understand from yesterday's evidence from Dr. Mercille that Morgan Kelly had at least one newspaper turn down his second article for publication, the first one that went to The Irish Timesin 2006, and that a second article was also turned...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: What is the date of that article?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: In 2011, Vanity Fairreported that Morgan Kelly had been turned down by the editor of the Irish Independentwho had said the article that was sent to him was offensive. Is Mr. O'Regan saying that never happened?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: 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?...