Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Naturally this ... some of these issues, as you've said, predate your appointment to EBS. But, given your experience in banking ... a lifetime or a career in banking at different levels, if EBS, for whatever reason, had decided to maintain their mutual structure and to lend out money in line with those ... the resources of the members determined, would they be still tipping along there or would they have crashed?