Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Rabbitte, to follow on from that question can I ask if you or the Tánaiste had any knowledge of the commercial real estate sector? Putting it into context, on the night of the bank guarantee in question, Anglo Irish Bank, purely a monoline bank, 82% commercial real estate, 1% residential and while all the conversation to date has been upon residential, and then the remaining 17% was corporate lending attached to commercial real estate. Mr. Rabbitte, had you knowledge of the commercial real estate sector and where it had gone to? Try and exclude the portion that the Tánaiste has discussed to date. Had you information about the over-exuberance of the commercial real estate sector?