Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I can give it to you if you want to remember it. I mean, wasn’t that ... something happened in Irish banking ... look to the wider one, and from your experience in Ulster Bank it was a ... you know, a conservative pillar of society and people like Colm McCarthy have raised this point and perhaps you might assist us. What happened to Irish banking? It was conservative, it lent wisely, although conservatively, the people in it were pillars of society and respected, they were valued members of society, they promoted thrift. Now we’ve got to a situation where Her Majesty withdrew a knighthood from a banker associated with the Ulster Bank and we can’t-----