Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

In the banks themselves, watching them as a public representative over the years, and, you know, seeing how they were very important figures in rural towns in Ireland, to ... and notoriously conservative and solvent through famines, and wars, and then recessions, how do they ... what happened within banks, do you think, that they were at your door on 29 September 2008 looking for vast amounts of money?