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

Ciarán Lynch: Please ask the question again, Senator D'Arcy, and then wrap up.

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

Ciarán Lynch: We are now going to move towards a wrap-up. I will take in the two leads and then I will deal with some supplementary questions towards the end. Senator Barrett, a question with a supplementary, please.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Briefly, Senator. I need to push you. It was a matter of a question and a supplementary, not a whole new line of questioning.

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

Ciarán Lynch: I am sorry, Ms Kennedy. Has the ad anything to do with the topic of this inquiry, the banking crisis or property?

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

Ciarán Lynch: I wanted to establish the point, because there seems to be a discussion going on here.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Please move on. This is your very last question, Deputy.

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

Ciarán Lynch: That is the second time we have had U2 this week. Is what we are really looking for here-----

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

Ciarán Lynch: This line of questioning is coming to an end. I will wrap things up but before I do, I wish to return to a couple of matters. In her opening statement, Ms Kennedy states on page 4 that she thinks "... it is fair to say that the policy of The Irish Timeswas critical of both the establishment and operation of the Financial Regulator and IFSRA, believing that they were not independent of the...

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

Ciarán Lynch: Some of the testimony from Peter Nyberg and others that came before the committee - I think Professor Honohan - was that there is a counter argument that separating the two of them created disjointedness as well. It was the operational side of the offices of the Central Bank. Is Ms Kennedy's view still the same or has it been reshaped?

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

Ciarán Lynch: That they should be separate?

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

Ciarán Lynch: The nature of advertising and how it can be explosive in a growing economy and shrink very quickly when there is a downturn is something which came up with the Irish Independent this morning. Will Ms Donovan tell us if The Irish Times has done any modelling or examination with regard to that cycle and phenomenon?

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

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Ms Kennedy and Ms Donovan for coming before us this morning. The purpose of this inquiry is severalfold. It is not just to look at the past and put pieces of a jigsaw together but also to take those lessons from the past and give them a context, into the future, so the crisis and the hardship which was visited upon the Irish public and the Irish nation is not revisited upon their...

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

Ciarán Lynch: This question was posed this morning with one of the other news agents - does Ms Kennedy believe that this inquiry is hindering or helping that independence of media?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Does Ms Donovan wish to add anything?

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

Ciarán Lynch: I bring this session to conclusion. We will commence on session 3 later on this afternoon. I thank Ms Geraldine Kennedy and Ms Maeve Donovan for coming before the inquiry today and for their assistance, participation and engagement in helping us form our views. I thank them for their valuable contributions. I excuse the witnesses and propose that we suspend until 3 p.m.

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

Ciarán Lynch: We will commence session No. 3 of today's hearings with Mr. Ed Mulhall, former head of news and current affairs, and Mr. Paul Mulligan, head of commercial operations at RTE. We are focusing on the role of the media during the property boom in the lead-in to the banking crisis in the period 2002 to 2007. Our next session will look at any changes in approach after the crisis. I welcome Mr....

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

Ciarán Lynch: I just want to deal with one item before we go to the lead questioners, and that is the issue of the "Future Shock: Property Crash" programme that was broadcast in April 2007. As the witnesses are aware, the programme had a very serious commentary with regard to where the property market was going, where values might fall to, and other pending concerns. In the immediate aftermath of that...

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

Ciarán Lynch: What fallout?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Is Mr. Mulhall saying that the editorial policy to broadcast "Future Shock: Property Crash" was taken at a lower tier of editorial decision-making as opposed to a higher tier in RTE?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Within RTE at the higher editorial level, were there any divergent or conflicting views on whether the programme should have been broadcast?