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

Remuneration and budget committee and all subcommittees, it relates to the period around 2010, or projections for 2010, 2012: "The complement [of staff] should be augmented by 275-300 staff to ensure appropriate supervision of regulated entities". Quite a significant increase. Did you have any feeling at that time of, you know, the horses were away over the horizon, that it was a pity that these extra staff weren't put in during the bubble, for example?