Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Lastly, Ms O'Dea, you were consumer director, that means that you, your role would have been to stand up for the ordinary person, so to speak, in the whole period of the bubble. Now looking back on it, whose interest do you think was served mainly by the financial institutions over that period of time? Was it the interest of profit-seeking private institutions? Did that predominate over the interests of ordinary people? That's question one. And question two is-----