Mr. David Went:

I now remember the speech. No, no. The speech ... from memory, there had been a number of incidents where banks maybe had fallen short of what you might regard as proper standards but, sort of extrapolating from that, there had been a considerable amount of public comment on the fact that all bankers were dishonest, you know, etc., etc., etc., and my view was that that was not the case. I mean, you know, you go back to the – and I won’t debate this philosophically too much – but you go back to the point you made about, you know, Ulster Bank being a very sound, solid bank and everything else. If you also go back to that time, the one consistent thread of political comment on banking was that banks weren’t actually sufficiently in tune with the requirements of their customers. They should do more to support their customers. I mean, you know, you can’t have it both ways.