Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As I am running out of time, I have a final question which is in two parts. Has the stripping of power from local authority members in the past decade to 15 years contributed to a lack of focus by parliamentary members on important national matters, such as preventing crises, or the bank crisis or has it been a good thing? Considering - I am quoting Professor Farrell's own testimony - "the weakness of the Irish parliament", is it his view that a banking crisis of such a damaging nature was unlucky, unfortunate or inevitable?