Results 18,241-18,260 of 26,228 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What would there be instead, in Dr. Mercille's view?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In Dr. Mercille's view, if the media had told the truth, would the property bubble have arisen at all?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: So Dr. Mercille would put the media very much centre stage in terms of being-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is so obvious, Chairman, that I have to ask it.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: In Dr. Mercille's view, could one make the point that the media were a contributing factor in the property bubble, or not?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: It played a role.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dr. Mercille made a very interesting observation that in 2006 - ironically, when the property market was in decline and the crash had more or less happened - both INM and The Irish Timesbought property websites. Did Dr. Mercille do any study examining how a situation had arisen whereby two large media publications had purchased property websites when effectively the market had reached its...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the purchase of those two websites manifest itself in any way in the media coverage of the property sector provided by both of those organisations from 2006 on?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: How much time do I have left, Chairman?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dr. Mercille referenced an article in The Economistin 2002, which was followed up in 2003, which said that the Irish market had been displaying bubble-like symptoms in recent years. It calculated that Ireland's property market was overvalued by 42% relative to the average of the previous three years. There were also warnings from some Irish contrarian economists.Around that time The...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Dr. Mercille saying it was a case of "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," like the three monkeys?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Dr. Mercille believe the Irish media did not do its job?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Dr. Mercille believe, on the basis of his studies, that media outlets were aware that there was a problem with property? Was it a sin of omission? Did they simply fail to report on it?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you, Chairman.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Dr. Mercille referred to property-related taxes in the context of GDP in his statement. Did he get an opportunity as part of his research to examine the growth in advertising expenditure as a proportion of total income of newspaper outlets and how much of that was property-related?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Dr. Mercille know by how much it increased based on his research?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: What was the figure in 2002?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: So it increased by at least 60% or 70%.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (25 Mar 2015)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did Dr. Mercille review the coverage of property in individual newspapers and other publications between 2000 and 2007? Was there a difference in the way they dealt with the issue and the Irish market?