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

A few years ... not too long, but a few years after you retired, Mr. Patterson, you were quoted in the Irish Independenton 4 December 2010 ... I couldn't find the speech unfortunately, but you're quoted as saying in relation to the bubble and the crash, "We were all responsible"... this writer said that you said, "We were all responsible," he said, several times in a speech that extolled, among other things, that ... a democracy that allows a change of government without military coups ... I think we're all grateful for that. But do you really believe that - that ordinary people were responsible for the bubble?