Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----Regulator indicated his view that the banks were not convinced that there was an incipient risk building up in the banking sector." Was that not your job? I mean, the people at the party aren't going to object in the famous metaphor about taking the punch bowl away; they want the party to continue. Your job was to stop the party, not to ask them did they want the party to continue.