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

Ciarán Lynch: To use the Chomsky term, is the media involved in a manufacturing of consent around property purchasing? Is it not an Irish cultural thing but rather a media phenomenon that people buy homes disproportionately in Ireland compared with other countries?

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

Ciarán Lynch: If we had a different interpretation or narrative, would there be lower rates of home ownership and higher rates of renting?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Do you rent or own?

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

Ciarán Lynch: That is a leading question.

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

Ciarán Lynch: It is so obvious that the Deputy has a leading question. That is my difficulty. Do not ask a leading question and I will let you do your job.

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

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy has seven minutes.

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

Ciarán Lynch: I call Senator O'Keeffe.

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

Ciarán Lynch: The next questioner is Senator Michael D'Arcy.

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

Ciarán Lynch: I want to reshape things for a moment because we are falling into a general discussion. The lead-up to the property crash and the financial and banking crash happened over a good number of years and was multifaceted with many dynamics. The period of the guarantee, however, is a very significant period in terms of a timeline. How does Dr. Mercille view the media’s coverage of the...

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

Ciarán Lynch: I remember driving up to the Dáil on the morning of the guarantee, listening to RTE’s 2FM and the late Gerry Ryan dealing with the issue. This was not the normal subject matter of that station. Did Dr. Mercille do an examination of the various shows during the two-week period of the guarantee and the proportion of those which were in favour or against it?

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

Ciarán Lynch: It is an analogy.

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

Ciarán Lynch: That is quite leading. The Senator cannot ask the witness his view. He can ask for an opinion upon something, but you cannot preface it with "Is it your view". That is a very leading question.

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

Ciarán Lynch: No, he cannot.

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

Ciarán Lynch: No, we are not going into the specifics of that. It is an allegation. I do not know if the witness can even answer that. I ask the Senator to be general.

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

Ciarán Lynch: You made the allegation.

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

Ciarán Lynch: We will clarify the situation. Is it your belief, Dr. Mercille, or can you explain to this committee, where views were edited, censored or suppressed, which were contrary to what was considered to have been the mainstream view of the sector at the time? I will give Senator MacSharry back some time later.

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

Ciarán Lynch: Is this research you have done or just anecdotal opinion you are giving to the committee this morning?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

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

Ciarán Lynch: So this is an observation of yours. You have not researched this.

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

Ciarán Lynch: When I asked you the question earlier about the guarantee and the media coverage, I would have an opinion about that but I would not have actually researched it. I would have listened to different shows. There is a difference between researching something and the empirical evidence that underpins it and coming before this inquiry and giving an opinion on something. I am asking if is this...