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

Kieran O'Donnell: That is a totally different market. In the limited time that I have, I want to clarify a number of points. The myhome.iewebsite was and is a property website. It was linked into property. Why did The Irish Timesinvest in a website at the peak of the market when, if it was going as well as it was going, it was being sold by three of the prime residential estate agents and one of the prime...

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Donovan is not answering the question.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Into a market that was clearly collapsing.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What were Ms Kennedy's reservations? It looks like D'Olier Street was sold in 2006 for €29 million and another €10 million was borrowed and that was used to buy myhome.ie.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Did The Irish Timesborrow that €10 million? There were borrowings of €10 million in that particular year in the accounts.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What were Ms Kennedy's reservations at the time as a member of the board?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: What were Ms Kennedy's reservations?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Was there a specific editor of the property supplement?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Did they report to Ms. Kennedy?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: As the editor, did Ms Kennedy feel that she had any responsibility in terms of checking the veracity of the advertisements that were put in by various developers and estate agents?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Property ads?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Were there any procedures to check that what was in a property ad was accurate?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes, I do.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I understand.

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

Kieran O'Donnell: How much has been written off myhome.iein the balance sheet of The Irish Times?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: In hindsight, was it a wise investment?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: Even though nearly the full €40 million has been written off?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to ask Mr. Mulligan a couple of questions around the public television licence fee. Am I correct in saying that 50% of RTE's income comes from the public television licence fee?

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

Kieran O'Donnell: So two thirds of the income would have come from -----

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

Kieran O'Donnell: So about 55% of RTE's income would come from -----