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

Okay, thank you. Mr. Moran, in the course of the bubble period, when you were in the budget and economic division and then in the taxation policy division, we have evidence in the core books - which I'm not going to take the time to put up - but of strong lobbying by construction interests and developer interests. There is an example of a letter refracted through a member of parliament from a developer and then the Irish auctioneers have a strong proposal to a committee, for example, "[opposing] any system in which individual landowners are deprived of the open market value of their land in the interest of favouring other more disadvantaged members of the community."