Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I said he needed to get very good advice and expertise and I advised him strongly to look for expert advice in relation to the difficulties that seemed to be, if you like ... you know, it was a period of considerable financial uncertainty and more and more information was coming out in relation to specific problems in Ireland and I felt that if he had more expert advice, he might, in fact, be able to respond more rapidly. I was very disappointed when that Government went off in June or July of 2008 and then did not come back until September, when, obviously, the crisis literally exploded.