Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

But in terms of ... so, just to put it another way, is there no targets for the sales staff within the branch network of EBS? Because there was ... where I'm coming from with this is, all of your colleagues have effectively denied that there was no performance-related targets for the management in all the branch networks all over the country and this is just a bit curious to some of us here and I just want to know had EBS the same model where people turned up for work, go in there and do the job to the best of your ability but, you know, nobody has a sheet of paper that says the Stillorgan branch needs to lend ... we have expectations in the line of X amount of money on mortgages, or Y amount of money on credit cards, or, you know, whatever the products are, and I just ... because ... there's kind of ... there's the board level of view on this and the management, they're coming in here and talking to us on it. And then there's the anecdotal one, that really the shoe was rarely taken off the throat, in the context of targeting staff.