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- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Good. He also alluded to a situation, without mentioning names, in which a journalist had accepted and had been given real estate for the purpose of positive commentary. Did Mr. Vaughan ever come across anything like that in his career?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Does Mr. Vaughan have a view on whether, in the media generally over the years, the raw reportage of the facts has given way to views and opinion as put forward by writers?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I thank Mr. Murphy for his presentation. In his experience with the Irish Examineror in his position as group head, has he experience of any large commercial entity withdrawing or cancelling pre-scheduled advertising because of an editorial dispute?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Specifically on property.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I know that, but to Mr. Murphy's knowledge, was there ever an instance, either in The Sunday Business Postor the Irish Examiner, of a major commercial entity, and we are here to talk about property, cancelling pre-scheduled advertising for two, three, four, five or six months because of a dispute?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is fine. During the relevant period and up to the present day, did the Irish Examineror The Sunday Business Postever engage in promotional raffles where property was the prize?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: If it were true, and in the event that it perhaps did happen in The Sunday Business Post, did the winners ever get the property?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It is a line of questioning that I would love to get into in the next phase.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I did mean that it was offered.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It is almost over, Mr. Vaughan will be glad to know.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I have a couple of questions relevant to the presentation. Chairman, can I go in another direction a little?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: In fairness, much of the good material has already been covered, but Dr. Byrne's presentation was so good I am sure I will find more in it. What is Dr. Byrne's opinion of the various political reforms that have been introduced by the current Government and those that are under consideration by the Constitutional Convention? What impact does she believe these reforms will have on the various...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is there legislation anywhere in the world that in some way holds political parties to account in terms of the manifesto versus programme for government?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Apart from elections.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Somebody suggested to me that in Canada, perhaps, there is some way of holding party A to account for promising X but reneging on it or doing the opposite.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is it the benchmark?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I will veer slightly away from that. It relates to something we will be considering later, but as Dr. Byrne is here I will put the question to her. From a journalistic perspective, is there a code of conduct in newspapers for how journalists interact with the commercial world?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (12 Mar 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It is not related in any way to any law?