Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

And do you think that that slowness to act extended all the way through 2008? I appreciate you had been ill and you weren't there but I'm ... you would have more than a grasp of what had gone on.

Because looking at it now, as we are, there was a lot of knowledge accumulating ... yet nobody ... everybody was sitting on their hands waiting for something else to happen, it appears. So, was there a slowness to act all the way through until it literally came to a cliff edge and then everyone said, "Oh, my God, we'd better fix it"?