Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. Brian Patterson:

Yes. And if you recall the date, I think we were just a few weeks after the bailout and I believed that we were in the business of talking ourselves down as a country and the speech that I gave at the time tried to ... perhaps unsuccessfully, to focus people on all the positives that existed in our country and how we still had a lot of freedom, because a lot of people were saying we'd lost our sovereignty. I didn't believe that was the case. We certainly had lost our economic and financial freedom, but ... and that was the reference to-----

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